File:The Cartwheel Galaxy (opo9636a1).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionThe Cartwheel Galaxy (opo9636a1).jpg |
English: Located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, the galaxy looks like a wagon wheel. The galaxy's nucleus is the bright object in the center of the image; the spoke-like structures are wisps of material connecting the nucleus to the outer ring of young stars. The galaxy's unusual configuration was created by a nearly head-on collision with a smaller galaxy about 200 million years ago. |
Date | 26 November 1996 (upload date) |
Source | The Cartwheel Galaxy |
Author | Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
Credit/Provider | Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 26 November 1996 |
Keywords | Cartwheel Galaxy |
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |