A Collision in the Heart of a Galaxy
esahubble_opo9717a June 9th, 1997
Credit: Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and Nick Scoville (California Institute of Technology), and NASA/ESA
The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer(NICMOS) has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision has provided the spark for a burst of star formation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9717a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9717a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Arp 220
- Credits
- Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and Nick Scoville (California Institute of Technology), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-06-09T18:45:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9717a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 2200, 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 233.73849148, 23.5029535619
- Reference Dimension
- 359.0, 359.0
- Reference Pixel
- 179.5, 179.5
- Scale
- -1.05620530938e-05, 1.05620530938e-05
- Rotation
- -4.1200000000000232
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9717a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9717a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:16+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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