Hubble Interacting Galaxy IC 2545
stsci_2008-16bc April 25th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
IC 2545 is a beautiful, but deceptive object that appears to be a single S-shaped galaxy, but is actually a pair of merging galaxies. The two cores of the parent galaxies are still visible in the central region. Other telltale markers for the collision include two pronounced tidal arms of gas and stars flung out from the central region. The tidal arm curving upwards and clockwise in the image contains a number of blue star clusters. IC 2545 glows strongly in the infrared part of the spectrum - another sign that it is a pair of merging galaxies. It lies in the constellation of Antlia, the Air Pump, some 450 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
- 2008-16bc
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7 C.5.5.2
- Subject Name
- IC 2545
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, 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+00:00
- Lightyears
- 450,000,000
- Redshift
- 450,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-16
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 450 million light-years (150 million parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 814
- Start Time
- 2005-11-06T00:00:00, 2005-11-06T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- H
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 151.5228507, -33.8863845
- Reference Dimension
- 2529.0, 2530.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1265.5, 1266.0
- Scale
- -1.38571e-05, 1.3857057e-05
- Rotation
- 86.45
- 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-p0816bc-f-2529x2530.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0816bc-f-2529x2530.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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