Hubble Interacting Galaxy AM 1316-241
stsci_2008-16ap April 25th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
AM 1316-241 is made up of two interacting galaxies - a spiral galaxy (on the left of the frame) in front of an elliptical galaxy (on the right of the frame). The starlight from the background galaxy is partially obscured by the bands and filaments of dust associated with the foreground spiral galaxy. The Hubble image unravels the fine detail in the patchy clumps of dust confined to the spiral arms of the spiral galaxy. This dust reddens the light from the background just as the intervening dust in the Earth's atmosphere reddens sunsets here. AM1316-241 is located some 400 million light-years away toward the constellation of Hydra, the Water Snake.
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
- 2008-16ap
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7 C.5.5.2
- Subject Name
- AM 1316-241, ESO 508-45
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
- Release Date
- 2008-04-25T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 350,000,000
- Redshift
- 350,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-16
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 350 million light-years (100 million parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 814
- Start Time
- 1997-07-18T00:00:00, 1997-07-18T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- H
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 199.8829863, -24.4889691
- Reference Dimension
- 1660.0, 1660.0
- Reference Pixel
- 831.0, 831.0
- Scale
- -1.26848e-05, 1.2684787e-05
- Rotation
- -55.99
- 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-p0816ap-f-1660x1660.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0816ap-f-1660x1660.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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