Individual colour images - 4 (WFPC2, 659 nm)
Date: 31 May 2001
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 1512
Copyright: NASA, ESA, Dan Maoz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Columbia University, USA)
This image was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The yellow colour (659 nm) represents visible light from (redshifted) ionised hydrogen (H-alpha). The image was taken on 5 March, 1999, and has an exposure time of 5200 s.
This image is issued jointly by NASA and ESA.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
