File:IC 5201 - HST - Potw1650a.tif
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A closer look at IC 5201 In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the British–South African scientist spotted this beautiful sight in the southern constellation of Grus (The Crane): a barred spiral galaxy now named IC 5201. Over a century later, the galaxy is still of interest to astronomers. For this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope used its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to produce a beautiful and intricate image of the galaxy. Hubble’s ACS can resolve individual stars within other galaxies, making it an invaluable tool to explore how various populations of stars have sprung to life, evolved, and died throughout the cosmos. IC 5201 sits over 40 million light-years away from us. As with two thirds of all the spirals we see in the Universe — including the Milky Way, the galaxy has a bar of stars slicing through its centre. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Coordinates Position (RA): 22 20 59.18 Position (Dec): -46° 2' 2.16" Field of view: 3.27 x 3.38 arcminutes Orientation: North is 112.8° left of vertical Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Optical V 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Optical I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS. |
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Date | 12 December 2016, 6:00 (Release) | |||
Source | http://spacetelescope.org/images/Potw1650a/ http://spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/Potw1650a.tif | |||
Author | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA | |||
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