Hubble
Interacting Galaxy AM 0500-620
Interacting Galaxies
RA 05hr 00m 33.70s Dec -62° 04' 05."0
Dorado
350 million light-years (100 million parsecs)
WFPC2
March 31, 1997
1.3 hours
F435W (B) and F814W (I)
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, & W. Keel (U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
April 24, 2008
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ABOUT THIS IMAGE:
AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background galaxy. The foreground spiral galaxy has a number of dust lanes between its arms. The background galaxy was earlier classified as an elliptical galaxy, but Hubble has now revealed a galaxy with dusty spiral arms and bright knots of stars. AM0500-620 is 350 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dorado, the Swordfish