File:A slashing smudge across the sky.jpg
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English: The galaxy cutting dramatically across the frame of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a slightly warped dwarf galaxy known as UGC 1281. Seen here from an edge-on perspective, this galaxy lies roughly 18 million light-years away in the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle). The bright companion to the lower left of UGC 1281 is the small galaxy PGC 6700, officially known as 2MASX J01493473+3234464. Other prominent stars belonging to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and more distant galaxies can be seen scattered throughout the sky. The side-on view we have of UGC 1281 makes it a perfect candidate for studies into how gas is distributed within galactic halos — the roughly spherical regions of diffuse gas extending outwards from a galaxy’s centre. Astronomers have studied this galaxy to see how its gas vertically extends out from its central plane, and found it to be a quite typical dwarf galaxy. However, it does have a slightly warped shape to its outer edges, and is forming stars at a particularly low rate. A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Luca Limatola. Links Luca Limatola's Hidden Treasures entry on Flickr |
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ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola |
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Date and time of data generation | 10:00, 24 November 2014 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows) |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:180909d6-911c-3b43-a5a2-6d1182fc3385 |
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |
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