Stealing the Show
esahubble_potw2016a April 20th, 2020
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Armandroff
As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope undeniably steals the show. This spotlight-hogging galaxy, seen set against a backdrop of more distant galaxies of all shapes and sizes, is known as PGC 29388. Although it dominates in this image, this galaxy is a small player on the cosmic stage, and is known as a dwarf elliptical galaxy. As the dwarf moniker suggests, the galaxy is on the smaller side, and boasts a mere 100 million to a few billion stars a very small number indeed when compared to the Milky Way's population of around 250 to 400 billion stellar residents.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw2016a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- potw2016a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4 C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- PGC 29388
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Armandroff
- Release Date
- 2020-04-20T09:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw2016a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 151.763265359, 67.8293773146
- Reference Dimension
- 3948.0, 1960.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1974.0, 980.0
- Scale
- -1.3897050154740268E-05, 1.3897050154740268E-05
- Rotation
- -81.140000000000043
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Position
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- potw2016a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/potw2016a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-12-02T13:43:28+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
