Hubble photographs grand design spiral galaxy M81
esahubble_heic0710a May 28th, 2007
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: A. Zezas and J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the galaxy's arms wind all the way down into the nucleus. Though the galaxy is located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope's view is so sharp that it can resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas. The Hubble data was taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 through 2006. This colour composite was assembled from images taken in blue, visible, and infrared light.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0710a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0710a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 81
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: A. Zezas and J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- Release Date
- 2007-05-28T21:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0710a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 148.891068953, 69.0722560785
- Reference Dimension
- 22620.0, 15200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 11310.0, 7600.0
- Scale
- -1.38880823301e-05, 1.38880823301e-05
- Rotation
- 113.97999999999999
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0710a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0710a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2007-05-22T09:43:41-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
