Distant view of a galactic crash — NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 (ground-based image)
This ground-based image shows the large galaxy NGC 4490 and the irregular galaxy NGC 4485 — above the larger galaxy in the centre of the image — it is interacting with.
Both galaxies are connected with each other through a stream of material about 25 000 light-years long. The stream is made up of bright knots and huge pockets of gassy regions, as well as enormous regions of star formation in which young, massive, blue stars are born.
Having already made their closest approach, NGC 4485 and NGC 4490 are now moving away from each other.
Credit:NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
About the Image
| Id: | heic1910b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 16 May 2019, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1910 |
| Size: | 10416 x 8244 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 4485, NGC 4490 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Irregular |
| Constellation: | Canes Venatici |
| Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 12 30 33.38 |
| Position (Dec): | 41° 40' 17.91" |
| Field of view: | 175.05 x 138.55 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 1.2° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical B | 467 nm | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Optical R | 660 nm | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Optical i | 797 nm | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |