Close-Up of Star Formation in Antennae Galaxy
esahubble_opo9734z October 21st, 1997
Credit: Brad Whitmore (STScI), and NASA/ESA
The collision triggers the birth of new stars in brilliant blue star clusters, the brightest of which contains roughly a million stars. The star clusters are blue because they are very young, the youngest being only a few million years old, a mere blink of the eye on the astronomical time scale.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734z/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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- ID
- opo9734z
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Antennae, IRAS 11593-1835, IRAS F11593-1836, NGC 4038, NGC 4039
- Credits
- Brad Whitmore (STScI), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-10-21T19:00:00
- Lightyears
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- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734z/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha + Nii, I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 814, 550, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 300.0, 300.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- opo9734z
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9734z.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:49:07+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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