Hubble image archive

NGC 5252

CreditsNASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

Date
Jan 1, 2015
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
Archive ID
hubblesite-images-2015-13-3532-image
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Credits

NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

Image Details

About The Object
Object NameNGC 5252
Object DescriptionActive Galaxy
R.A. Position13h 38m 15.96s
Dec. Position04° 32' 33.28"
ConstellationVirgo
DistanceRedshift: 0.0228
About The Data
Data DescriptionThe image was created from Hubble observations of active galaxies from proposals : PI Z. Tsvetanov (NASA/GALEX) et al. and : W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), K. Schawinski (ETH Zurich), V. Bennert (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), C. Lintott (Oxford University), D. Chojnowski (New Mexico State), D. Evans (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and M. Urry (Yale University). The science team comprises: W. Keel and W. Peter Maksym (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), V. Bennert (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), C. Lintott (Oxford University), D. Chojnowski (New Mexico State), A. Moiseev and A. Smirnova (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia), K. Schawinski (ETH Zurich), M. Urry (Yale University), D. Evans (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Pancoast (UC Santa Barbara), B. Scott (JPL), C. Showley (San Francisco State University), and K. Flatland (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo).
InstrumentHST>WFPC2
FiltersFR533N, F673N, F588N, and F606W
About The Image
Color InfoBlue: FR533N + F588N Green: F673N Red: F606W

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