Takes Two Antenna Galaxies to Tangle
spitzer_sig10-017 August 5th, 2010
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/STScI
A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like arms seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced in the collision.
Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope
Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3244-sig10-017-Takes-Two-Antenna-Galaxies-to-Tangle
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- sig10-017
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 4038, NGC 4039
- Credits
- NASA/CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/STScI
- Release Date
- 2010-08-05
- Lightyears
- 60,000,000
- Redshift
- 60,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3244-sig10-017-Takes-Two-Antenna-Galaxies-to-Tangle
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- HST, HST, HST, Chandra, Spitzer
- Instrument
- WFC, WFC, WFC, ACIS, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, X-ray, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B-band, Narrow-V, Broad-I, X-ray, 8 micron
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 550, 814, 0.8267, 8000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 180.4707556, -18.8831994
- Reference Dimension
- 3545.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1773.5, 1801.0
- Scale
- 1.58127e-05, 1.581272e-05
- Rotation
- -31.04
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Publisher ID
- spitzer
- Resource ID
- sig10-17.tif
- Resource URL
- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/images/0006/0854/sig10-17.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-01-27
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
