Hubble Interacting Galaxy NGC 6670
stsci_2008-16ad April 25th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
NGC 6670 is a gorgeous pair of overlapping edge-on galaxies resembling a leaping dolphin. Scientists believe that NGC 6670 has already experienced at least one close encounter and is now in the early stages of a second. The nuclei of the two galaxies are approximately 50,000 light-years apart. NGC 6670 glows in the infrared with more than a hundred billion times the luminosity of our Sun and is thought to be entering a starburst phase. The pair is located some 400 million light-years away from Earth.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-16
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 2008-16ad
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7 C.5.5.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6670
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
- Release Date
- 2008-04-25T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 400,000,000
- Redshift
- 400,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-16
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 400 million light-years (100 million parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 814
- Start Time
- 2005-10-31T00:00:00, 2005-10-31T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- H
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 278.4005386, 59.8888340
- Reference Dimension
- 2702.0, 2702.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1352.0, 1352.0
- Scale
- -1.38307e-05, 1.3830705e-05
- Rotation
- -149.63
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p0816ad-f-2702x2702.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0816ad-f-2702x2702.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
