HUBBLE FINDS "GREATER PUMPKIN" GALAXY PAIR
stsci_2020-32a October 29th, 2020
Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing "eyes" are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give the imaginary pumpkin a wry smirk. The two mostly featureless galaxies, cataloged as NGC?2292 and NGC?2293, are located about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-32
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Color Mapping
- ID
- 2020-32a
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2292
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
- Release Date
- 2020-10-29T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 120,900,000
- Redshift
- 120,900,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-32
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble, Pan-STARRS, Pan-STARRS
- Instrument
- ACS/WFC, -, -
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, g, z
- Central Wavelength
- 606, -, -
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 100.97560900000, -26.00000000000
- Reference Dimension
- 6196.00, 5901.00
- Reference Pixel
- 48942.71354784153, -125571.99091141182
- Scale
- -0.00000831925, 0.00000831925
- Rotation
- -28.22607313702
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.0 revision 213+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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-p2032a-f-6196x5901.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p2032a-f-6196x5901.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-10-26T16:49:53-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
