Cropped View of Galaxies in Lopsided Tug of War
The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley’s Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531. The image — taken by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab — captures the mutual gravitational influences of a massive- and dwarf-galaxy merger.
Credit:CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA
Image processing: R. Colombari, M. Rodriguez, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2321a |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | Aug. 10, 2023, 1:23 p.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2321 |
Size: | 3989 x 2671 px |
About the Object
Name: | NGC 1532 |
Distance: | 65 million light years |
Constellation: | Eridanus |
Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 4 12 2.49 |
Position (Dec): | -32° 53' 16.73" |
Field of view: | 17.63 x 11.82 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 67.1° left of vertical |
Colors & filters
Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
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Optical g | 473 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical r | 642 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical i | 784 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |