Galaxy Playing Twister
The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on. This Hubble Heritage image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that, by contrast, has an unusual twisted disk structure, first seen in ground-based photographs.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0123a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 2 August 2001, 15:00 |
| Size: | 1435 x 732 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ESO 510-G13, IRAS 13522-2632 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 150 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
450 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical V |
555 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
675 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
