Messier 66 — member of the Leo Triplet
esahubble_heic1810c May 17th, 2018
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
The spiral galaxy Messier 66 is located at a distance of about 35 million light-years in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). Together with Messier 65 and NGC 3628, Messier 66 is a member of the Leo Triplet, a trio of interacting spiral galaxies. Like all the galaxies in LEGUS, Messier 66 is undergoing vigorous star and star-cluster formation. One of the goals of LEGUS is to sample star-forming regions across each galaxy. Because the galaxies are relatively close to Earth, Hubble can resolve individual stars. An image of this galaxy was already released back in 2010 (heic1006). This newly-processed image now also shows ultraviolet radiation Hubble captured from the galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1810c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1810c
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 66, NGC 3627
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
- Release Date
- 2018-05-17T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1810c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Blue, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Ultraviolet, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- UV, U, B, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 275, 336, 438, 555, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 170.0616, 12.9642
- Reference Dimension
- 3843.0, 4080.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2001.38508622, 2018.51578751
- Scale
- -1.097489e-05, 1.097489e-05
- Rotation
- 36.84095174047
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1810c
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1810c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-06-01T12:54:25+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
