Hubble Interacting Galaxy ESO 69-6 (2008-04-24)
Författare/Upphovsman:
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
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Beskrivning:
The galaxies of this beautiful interacting pair bear some resemblance to musical notes on a stave. Long tidal tails sweep out from the two galaxies: gas and stars were stripped out and torn away from the outer regions of the galaxies. The presence of these tails is the unique signature of an interaction. ESO 69-6 is located in the constellation of Triangulum Australe, the Southern Triangle, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.
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 | ESO 69-6, ESO 069-IG006, AM 1633-682 |
| Object description | Interacting Galaxies |
| Position (J2000) | 16 38 12.69 -68 26 25.4 |
| Constellation | Triangulum Australe |
| Distance | 600 million light-years (200 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) | April 8, 2002 |
| Exposure time | 39 minutes |
| Filters | F435W (B) and F814W (I) |
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Public domain
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