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DescriptionNGC1705 - HST - Potw2205a.jpg |
English: Hubble Revisits a Galactic Oddball
Despite these eccentricities, NGC 1705 and other dwarf irregular galaxies like it can provide valuable insights into the overall evolution of galaxies. Dwarf irregular galaxies tend to contain few elements other than hydrogen or helium, and are considered to be similar to the earliest galaxies that populated the Universe. The data shown in this image come from a series of observations designed to unveil the interplay between stars, star clusters, and ionised gas in nearby star-forming galaxies. By observing a specific wavelength of light known as H-alpha with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers aimed to discover thousands of emission nebulae — regions created when hot, young stars bathe the clouds of gas surrounding them in ultraviolet light, causing them to glow. This is not the first time that NGC 1705 has been imaged by Hubble — astronomers peered into the heart of the galaxy in 1999 using Hubble’s workhorse camera at the time, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This instrument was replaced with the Wide Field Camera 3 during the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to Hubble in 2009, and the newer instrument has provided a richer and far more detailed portrait of NGC 1705 than the 1999 observation. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar
Coordinates Position (RA): 4 54 13.95 Position (Dec): -53° 21' 40.35" Field of view: 2.59 x 1.45 arcminutes Orientation: North is 47.0° left of vertical Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Ultraviolet UV 275 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical B 438 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical U 336 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical Strömgren y 547 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical V 555 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical H-alpha + N II 657 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3. |
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Date | 31 January 2022, 06:00 (released) | |||
Source | https://esahubble.org/images/potw2205a/ | |||
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 31 January 2022 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 23.0 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 13:28, 18 January 2022 |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:05, 5 January 2022 |
Date metadata was last modified | 06:28, 18 January 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:3ef2d620-2b46-774f-8246-e6bfc9474291 |
Keywords | NGC 1705 |
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IIM version | 4 |