NGC 3077
The dark clumps of material scattered around the bright nucleus of NGC 3077 are pieces of wreckage from the galaxy's interactions with its larger neighbours. NGC 3077 is a member of the M81 group of galaxies and it resides 12.5 million light-years from Earth.
Credit:
NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)
About the Image
NASA press release
| Id: | heic0819d |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 30 September 2008, 16:00 |
| Related release: | heic0819 |
| Size: | 1491 x 830 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 3077 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Size : Dwarf |
| Distance: | 13 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
475 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical V |
606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
