The Cartwheel Galaxy
This close-up image of the galaxy's nucleus reveals the comet-like knots of gas. These knots are mostly confined to the core's left side and appear as white streaks inside the blue ring.
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
| Id: | opo9636a2 |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 26 November 1996, 06:00 |
| Size: | 192 x 221 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cartwheel Galaxy, IRAS 00352-3359 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Lenticular • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 500 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
450 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
