The area around NGC 3314 (ground-based view)
This image shows a wide field of view around the overlapping galaxy pair NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two are in chance alignment from our vantage point.
Credit:
NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin)
About the Image
| Id: | heic1208b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 14 June 2012, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1208 |
| Size: | 10566 x 7579 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 3314, NGC 3314A, NGC 3314B |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 150 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
DSS |
| Optical B+R |
DSS |
| Optical R |
DSS |
| Infrared I |
DSS (COSTAR) |
