NGC 5170
noirlab_noao-n520newton February 25th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Jeff Newton/Adam Block
Galactic police would have a difficult time trying to determine which of these two galaxies caused the collision. At an estimated distance of 100 million light years away the light that we now receive took a significant time compared to how quickly the shape of this interaction is evolving. Most likely the tidal tails of this pair have grown dramatically and perhaps even more star formation is taking place in the heart of the mass. Note the dusty foreground dust lanes and the galaxies that are severely reddened (bottom left tail). Another similar example of colliding galaxies is NGC 4038. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n520newton/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-n520newton
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 5170
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Jeff Newton/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-02-25T12:03:51
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n520newton/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Broad Band, B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 21.1910595857, 3.84486245594
- Reference Dimension
- 1520.0, 1028.0
- Reference Pixel
- 395.256311417, 910.244112015
- Scale
- -0.000134321731873, 0.000134021505248
- Rotation
- -3.3375099887033
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-n520newton
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n520newton.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:42:14+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
