Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
2MASX J00482185-2507365 |
| Object Description: |
Overlapping Galaxies |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 00h 48m 19s.59
Dec. -25° 08' 51".2 |
| Constellation: |
Sculptor |
| Distance: |
780 million light-years (240 megaparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughly 50 arcseconds (180,000 light-years or 56 kiloparsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Science Team: |
This image was created from HST data from proposal 10915: J. Dalcanton (University of Washington) et al. The science team comprises B. Holwerda and R. de Jong (Space Telescope Science Institute), W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), and J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington). |
| Instrument: |
ACS |
| Filters: |
F475W (B), F606W (V), and F814W (I) |
| Exposure Date(s): |
September 19, 2006 |
| Exposure Time: |
1.9 hours |
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| About the Release |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
September 16, 2008 |
| Color |
The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
| F475W (B) |
blue |
| F606W (V) |
green |
| F814W (I) |
red |
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| Orientation: |
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