Too Fast, Too Furious: A Galaxy's Fatal Plunge
Circumstellar Disk HD 61005
Credit:
NASA, D. Hines (Space Science Institute, New Mexico Office in Corrales, New Mexico), and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0801b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 10 January 2008, 17:30 |
| Size: | 736 x 848 px |
About the Object
| Name: | HD 61005 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk • Stars Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 110 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Infrared J |
1.1 μm | Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS |
