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Space intruder: asteroid ‘sneaks’ into Hubble space image

Image of the galaxy UGC 7983. | Font: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Tully; CCBY 4.0

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An image filled with large cosmic objects taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, dominated by the blurry shape of a small galaxy. User code 7983also hides an astronomical intruder.

On the top left of the image you can see asteroid smaller, several kilometers in diameter.

Image of the galaxy UGC 7983
Full Hubble image of UGC 7983 | Font: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Tully; CCBY 4.0

Why did the asteroid “sneak” inside?

track asteroid it is visible as four bands of light separated by small gaps. These streaks of light represent the four separate exposures that were combined to create this image, with small gaps between each exposure needed to change filters in the extended view camera. Hubble.

capture asteroid The ESA reports that this was a happy side effect of a major effort to observe all known galaxies near the Milky Way.

Watching User code 7983 space telescope Hubble is part of the All Known Nearby Galaxies campaign to accurately observe all nearby galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (about 3260 light years) of the Milky Way. This observational campaign covers 153 galaxies and is conducted by the Space Telescope. Hubble from 2019 to 2021. According to the ESA, observations of nearby galaxies, which can be described as neighbors of the Milky Way, will help astronomers determine the types of stars in different galaxies and map the local structure of the universe.

User code 7983 It is located about 30 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo, and is a dwarf irregular galaxy, the type of which is considered similar to the earliest galaxies in the universe.

(According to Europa Press)

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