Wide-field image of the area around the Meathook Galaxy (ground-based image)
This wide-field view from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the neighbourhood of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442). A closer, more detailed view of the galaxy can be seen in an image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, and Hubble has made a close-up observation of one of the galaxy’s spiral arms.
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
About the Image
| Id: | heic1108c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 4 May 2011, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1108 |
| Size: | 10632 x 10651 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 2442 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral |
| Distance: | 55 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
DSS |
| Optical R |
DSS |
