Hubble Space Telescope | Stephan's Quintet: A Multi-wavelength Exploration @hubblespacetelescope | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
This visualization explores the galaxy group called Stephan's Quintet using observations in visible, infrared, and x-ray light. The sequence contrasts images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Webb Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory to provide insights across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Exploring the grouping in three dimensions, the video showcases the galaxy distances, diverse shapes, and the interactions between them. In particular, the stretched and distorted galactic features, along with a ridge of high-energy emission, provide evidence of a high-speed collision occurring within the group.
Multi-wavelength views enable contrasting and complimentary studies of this complex compact group.
Visualization: F. Summers, A. Pagan, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, G. Bacon (STScI)
Images: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech, CXC, CfA, Hubble SM4 ERO Team, E. O'Sullivan, A. Fujii
Music: "Cylinder Three", Chris Zabriskie CC-BY-NC 4.0
Audio Editing: D. Kirshenblat (STScI)
NASA's Universe of Learning
This visualization explores the galaxy group called Stephan's Quintet using observations in visible, infrared, and x-ray light. The sequence contrasts images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Webb Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory to provide insights across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Exploring the grouping in three dimensions, the video showcases the galaxy distances, diverse shapes, and the interactions between them. In particular, the stretched and distorted galactic features, along with a ridge of high-energy emission, provide evidence of a high-speed collision occurring within the group.
Multi-wavelength views enable contrasting and complimentary studies of this complex compact group.
Visualization: F. Summers, A. Pagan, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, G. Bacon (STScI)
Images: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech, CXC, CfA, Hubble SM4 ERO Team, E. O'Sullivan, A. Fujii
Music: "Cylinder Three", Chris Zabriskie CC-BY-NC 4.0
Audio Editing: D. Kirshenblat (STScI)
NASA's Universe of Learning
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Video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Image: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team (STScI)")
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This visualization traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional distribution. The sequence features a dense cluster of galaxies about 6 billion light-years away and extends to galaxies at more than twice that distance. Because the light from these galaxies has travelled for billions of years across space, the images show the galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago. In addition, the expansion of space has redshifted the light of these galaxies toward longer wavelengths (i.e., to the red end of the visible-light region and into the infrared-light region). The changes seen in galaxies during the fly-through illustrate the changes in galaxy structure and appearance over billions of years of cosmic history.
CANDELS is an acronym for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey project. One of the largest projects ever done with the Hubble Space Telescope, CANDELS surveyed five fields to study the development of galaxies over time. The CANDELS observations of the UDS field complement ground-based observations from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
Astronomers and visual artists extracted over 26,000 galaxies from the Hubble UDS images and created a computer model based on the measured and estimated properties. Note that the distances used in the visualization are significantly compressed for cinematic purposes.
Credits: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, J. DePasquale, G. Bacon, and Z. Levay (STScI)
Acknowledgement: H. Ferguson, A. Koekemoer, and the CANDELS Team
Music: Rotisserie Graveyard by Doctor Turtle CC BY 4.0
Download movie files at: http://hubblesite.org/video/984/science")
