The Cartwheel Galaxy
Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic images of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding at nearly 700, 000 mph through the galaxy's core.
Credit:
Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne(Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9636b |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 26 November 1996, 06:00 |
| Size: | 800 x 586 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cartwheel Galaxy, IRAS 00352-3359 |
| 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 |
Notes: The observation information is for the right image in the collage.
