Dusty filaments in NGC 4696
esahubble_heic1621a December 1st, 2016
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian
This picture, taken by Hubbles Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. The new images taken with Hubble show the dusty filaments surrounding the centre of this huge galaxy in greater detail than ever before. These filaments loop and curl inwards in an intriguing spiral shape, swirling around the supermassive black hole at such a distance that they are dragged into and eventually consumed by the black hole itself.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1621a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic1621a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 4696
- Credits
- NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian
- Release Date
- 2016-12-01T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1621a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, H-alpha, I
- Central Wavelength
- 467, 665, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 192.205260231, -41.3120626176
- Reference Dimension
- 1500.0, 1200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 750.0, 600.0
- Scale
- -1.46612074107e-05, 1.46612074107e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- 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
- heic1621a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1621a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:40:33.906465
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
