Wide-field view of the Andromeda Galaxy
esahubble_heic1112f July 21st, 2011
Credit: ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This ground-based image shows the full extent of the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M 31. The Andromeda Galaxy appears very large in the sky — several times the size of the full Moon (although much fainter). Hubble is designed to make highly detailed observations of much smaller patches of sky: the space telescope’s observations of the Andromeda Galaxy show individual stars and clusters rather than the broad spiral structure visible here. Wide-field images like this one give a broad overview.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1112f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1112f
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Andromeda Galaxy, Messier 31
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2011-07-21T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1112f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 10.7523331482, 41.2596417071
- Reference Dimension
- 21299.0, 13775.0
- Reference Pixel
- 10649.5, 6887.5
- Scale
- -0.000283216970837, 0.000283216970837
- Rotation
- 1.9200000000000017
- 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
- heic1112f
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1112f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-06-09T10:49:02+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
