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editDescriptionThe Green Bean galaxy J2240 (geminiann12015a).jpg |
English: CFHT color image, taken in g,r, and i filters, of J2240. The very strong [OIII] emission leads to the peculiar green color of the galaxy near the center of the field. In this object the ultra-luminous narrow-line region (NLR) is as large as the entire object, 130,000 light-years across. The object is located some 3.7 billion light-years distant and the galactic nucleus doesn’t appear very active in the image, contradicting the high [OIII] luminosity discussed in this story. |
Date | 30 November 2012, 16:30:00 (upload date) |
Source | The Green Bean galaxy J2240 |
Author | CFHT/ESO/M. Schirmer |
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Credit/Provider | CFHT/ESO/M. Schirmer |
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JPEG file comment | This view from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shows thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. But the one close to the centre looks very odd — it is bright green. This very unusual object is known as J224024.1-092748 or J2240 and it is a bright example of a new class of objects that have been nicknamed green bean galaxies. Green beans are entire galaxies that are glowing under the intense radiation from the region around a central black hole. J2240 lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer) and its light has taken about 3.7 billion years to reach Earth. |
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File change date and time | 11:13, 31 July 2020 |
Date and time of digitizing | 01:14, 3 December 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 06:13, 31 July 2020 |
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