Stephan's Quintet
stsci_2009-25c September 9th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
This portrait of Stephan's Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by NASA's Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Stephan's Quintet, as the name implies, is a group of five galaxies. However, studies have shown that group member NGC 7320, at upper left, is actually a foreground galaxy about 40 million light-years from Earth. The other members of the quintet reside 290 million light-years away. Three of the galaxies have distorted shapes, elongated spiral arms, and long, gaseous tidal tails containing myriad star clusters, proof of their close encounters. These interactions have sparked a frenzy of star birth in the central pair of galaxies. This drama is being played out against a rich backdrop of faraway galaxies. The galaxy group Stephan's Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2009/news-2009-25
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2009-25c
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3 C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Stephan's Quintet
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
- Release Date
- 2009-09-09T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 290,000,000
- Redshift
- 290,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2009/news-2009-25
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Stephan's Quintet is 290 million light-years (90 million parsecs) away. The foreground, superposed NGC 7320 is 40 million light-years (12 million parsecs) away.
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green, Red, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- JH, B, V, Halpha+[N II], Halpha, I
- Central Wavelength
- 140, 438, 606, 657, 665, 814
- Start Time
- 2009-07-24T00:00:00, 2009-07-24T00:00:00, 2009-07-24T00:00:00, 2009-07-30T00:00:00, 2009-07-30T00:00:00, 2009-07-24T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- J
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 338.9674044, 33.9596070
- Reference Dimension
- 4894.0, 5840.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2448.0, 2921.0
- Scale
- -1.1041e-05, 1.1040981e-05
- Rotation
- -93.53
- 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-p0925c-f-4894x5840.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0925c-f-4894x5840.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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