Galaxy NGC 1512: Composite+Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Images | Hubble

Galaxy NGC 1512: Composite+Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Images | Hubble

This picture is a multi-wavelength composite made by seven individual exposures made with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. These exposures were taken by the Faint Object Camera (FOC), Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).

Astronomers have used this set of single-color images, shown around the edge, to construct the color picture (center) of a ring of star clusters surrounding the core of the galaxy NGC 1512. These pictures were taken by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Camera (FOC), Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).

Each image represents a specific color or wavelength region of the spectrum, from ultraviolet to near infrared, and shows the wide wavelength region covered by Hubble. Celestial bodies emit light at a variety of wavelengths, anywhere from gamma rays to radio waves. Astronomers chose to study NGC 1512 in these colors to emphasize important details in the ring of young star clusters surrounding the core.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Dan Maoz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Columbia University, USA)

Release Date: May 31, 2001

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