Hubble scores a perfect ten
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.
The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed, apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, the "zero" of the pair, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.
Credit:NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)
About the Image
NASA press release
| Id: | heic0820a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 30 October 2008, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0820 |
| Size: | 1457 x 1201 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Arp 147 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting |
| Distance: | 450 million light years |
| Constellation: | Cetus |
| Category: | Galaxies |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 3 11 19.05 |
| Position (Dec): | 1° 18' 50.73" |
| Field of view: | 1.22 x 1.00 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 5.6° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical B | 450 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
| Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
| Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |