![Lonely Hearts Club Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can be deceiving. The subject of this Picture of the Week, NGC 1706, is a good example of this. NGC 1706 is a spiral galaxy, about 230 million light-years away, in the constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish). NGC 1706 is known to belong to something known as a galaxy group, which is just as the name suggests — a group of up to 50 galaxies which are gravitationally bound and hence relatively close to each other. Around half of the galaxies we know of in the Universe belong to some kind of group, making them incredibly common cosmic structures. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs to the Local Group, which also contains the Andromeda Galaxy, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and the Triangulum Galaxy. Groups are the smallest of galactic gatherings; others are clusters, which can comprise hundreds of thousands of galaxies bound loosely together by gravity, and subsequent superclusters, which bring together numerous clusters into a single entity. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al. Coordinates Position (RA): 4 52 31.14 Position (Dec): -62° 59' 9.28" Field of view: 3.18 x 1.59 arcminutes Orientation: North is 64.7° left of vertical Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope Optical V 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS Optical I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope ACS .](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/NGC1706_-_HST_-_Potw1943a.tif/lossy-page1-800px-NGC1706_-_HST_-_Potw1943a.tif.jpg)
Size of this JPG preview of this TIF file: 800 × 400 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 160 pixels | 640 × 320 pixels | 1,024 × 513 pixels | 1,280 × 641 pixels | 3,814 × 1,909 pixels.
Original file (3,814 × 1,909 pixels, file size: 10.07 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 08:40, 28 October 2019 | ![]() | 3,814 × 1,909 (10.07 MB) | <bdi>Fabian RRRR</bdi> | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description='''Lonely Hearts Club Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can be deceiving. The subject of this Picture of the Week, NGC 1706, is a good example of this. NGC 1706 is a spiral galaxy, about 230 million light-years away, in the constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish). NGC 1706 is known to belong to something known as a galaxy group, which is just as the name suggest... |
File usage
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
- Usage on arz.wikipedia.org
- Usage on az.wikipedia.org
- Usage on be.wikipedia.org
- Usage on bs.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ce.wikipedia.org
- Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Usage on diq.wikipedia.org
- Usage on eo.wikipedia.org
- Usage on eu.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on hr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on kk.wikipedia.org
- Usage on mk.wikipedia.org
- Usage on nl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
- Usage on sh.wikipedia.org
- Usage on sk.wikipedia.org
- Usage on tr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on tt.wikipedia.org
- Usage on uk.wikipedia.org
- Usage on uz.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org