Intergalactic pipeline
This visible-light picture, taken by the Hubble telescope, reveals an intergalactic 'pipeline' of material flowing between two battered galaxies that bumped into each other about 100 million years ago. The pipeline [the dark string of matter] begins in NGC 1410 [the galaxy at left], crosses over 20, 000 light-years of intergalactic space, and wraps around NGC 1409 [the companion galaxy at right] like a ribbon around a package. The galaxies reside about 300 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
Name: | IRAS 03386-0127, NGC 1409, NGC 1410 |
Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting |
Constellation: | Taurus |
Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 3 41 10.51 |
Position (Dec): | -1° 18' 2.97" |
Field of view: | 0.49 x 0.35 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 94.7° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical |
Hubble Space Telescope
STIS | |
Optical V | 585 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
STIS |
Optical R | 723 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
STIS |