Hubble Interacting Galaxy IC 2810 (2008-04-24)

Autor/Urheber:

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

Shortlink:

https://dewiki.de/b/33c1c2

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Wikimedia Commons

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Beschreibung:

IC 2810 is a disk galaxy viewed nearly edge-on. It is slightly disturbed by gravitational interaction with a smaller, dusty companion (located to the bottom of the image). The larger galaxy shows blue knots of star formation. Although the pair has no overlapping region at present, it is possible that the two will eventually collide in the future. IC 2810 is located in the constellation of Leo, the Lion, about 450 million light-years away.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

About the object
Object name	IC 2810
Object description	Interacting Galaxies
Position (J2000)	11 25 45.20 +14 40 35.0
Constellation	Leo
Distance	450 million light-years (150 million parsecs)
About the data
Data description	The Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Instrument	ACS/WFC
Exposure date(s)	November 19, 2001
Exposure time	33 minutes
Filters	F435W (B) and F814W (I)

Kommentar zur Lizenz:

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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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Public domain

Credit:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/bd/ (direct link)

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