What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a bird by the gravitational tug of the companion NGC 2937. The object was first cataloged as a "peculiar galaxy" by Halton Arp in the 1960s. This interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 142.
Hubble Space Telescope Emerges Atop The Field In Lockheed Martin’s “Innovation Madness” Tournament
The report from the April meeting of the Space Telescope Users Committee (STUC) has been submitted to the STScI Director and the HST Senior Project Scientist. The report and the presentations from the STUC meeting are available on the STUC web pages.
Using Director's Discretionary observing time, Hubble will undertake a revolutionary three-year deep field observing program to peer deeper into the Universe than ever before. The Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. These will be the second deepest observations of blank fields and deepest observations of clusters and their lensed galaxies ever obtained. Opportunities to propose for Archival and Theory programs related to these observations were announced in the Cycle 21 Call for Proposals. There is also a separate proposal opportunity for the creation of lensing maps prior to Cycle 21.
More details, including a list of frequently asked questions.
The ETCs are web-based applications that assist Hubble users in preparing Phase I and Phase II observing proposals. The ETCs calculate exposure times or SNRs for simulated astronomical observations using any of HST's primary instruments:
A synopsis of programs scheduled for observation with HST.
The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) is designed to optimize science from HST by providing online, enhanced Hubble products and advanced browsing capabilities.
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