The Cartwheel Galaxy
A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9502b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 10 January 1995, 23:00 |
| Size: | 641 x 523 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cartwheel Galaxy |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Lenticular • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 400 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
450 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
