Cropped View of Galaxies in Lopsided Tug of War
noirlab_noirlab2321a August 10th, 2023
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari, M. Rodriguez, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley’s Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531. The image — taken by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab — captures the mutual gravitational influences of a massive- and dwarf-galaxy merger.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2321a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2321a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 1532
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari, M. Rodriguez, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2023-08-10T13:23:49
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2321a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- g, r, i
- Central Wavelength
- 473, 642, 784
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 63.010388987, -32.8879794416
- Reference Dimension
- 3989.0, 2671.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1995.0, 1335.0
- Scale
- -7.3644601803144e-05, 7.37321597304355e-05
- Rotation
- 67.08831999516
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noirlab2321a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2321a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-05-17T04:09:51+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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