File:A spiral amongst friends ESA23338256.tiff
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this JPG preview of this TIF file: 669 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 268 × 240 pixels | 536 × 480 pixels | 857 × 768 pixels | 1,143 × 1,024 pixels | 2,285 × 2,048 pixels | 3,466 × 3,106 pixels.
Original file (3,466 × 3,106 pixels, file size: 61.63 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionA spiral amongst friends ESA23338256.tiff |
English: This image, taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), features the spiral galaxy NGC 4680. At 2 o’clock and 7 o’clock two other galaxies can be seen flanking NGC 4680. NGC 4680 enjoyed a wave of attention in 1997, as it played host to a supernova explosion known as SN 1997bp. Amazingly, the supernova was identified by an Australian amateur astronomer named Robert Evans, who has identified an extraordinary 42 supernova explosions. NGC 4680 is actually a rather tricky galaxy to classify. It is sometimes referred to as a spiral galaxy, but it is also sometimes classified as a lenticular galaxy. Lenticular galaxies fall somewhere in between spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies. Whilst NGC 4680 does have distinguishable spiral arms, they are not clearly defined, and the tip of one arm appears very diffuse. Galaxies are not static, and their morphologies (and therefore their classifications) vary throughout their lifetimes. Spiral galaxies are thought to evolve into elliptical galaxies, most likely by merging with one another, causing them to lose their distinctive spiral structures. |
Date | 11 June 2021 (upload date) |
Source | A spiral amongst friends |
Author | European Space Agency |
Other versions |
|
Activity InfoField | Space Science |
Mission InfoField | Hubble Space Telescope |
Licensing
[edit]ESA/Hubble images, videos and web texts are released by the ESA under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license and may on a non-exclusive basis be reproduced without fee provided they are clearly and visibly credited. Detailed conditions are below; see the ESA copyright statement for full information. For images created by NASA or on the hubblesite.org website, or for ESA/Hubble images on the esahubble.org site before 2009, use the {{PD-Hubble}} tag.
Conditions:
Notes:
|
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Attribution: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 01:03, 21 August 2024 | 3,466 × 3,106 (61.63 MB) | OptimusPrimeBot (talk | contribs) | #Spacemedia - Upload of https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2021/06/a_spiral_amongst_friends/23338246-1-eng-GB/A_spiral_amongst_friends.tif via Commons:Spacemedia |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Width | 3,466 px |
---|---|
Height | 3,106 px |
Bits per component |
|
Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Image data location | 24,972 |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 3,106 |
Bytes per compressed strip | 64,592,376 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 22.0 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 18:58, 26 April 2021 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |