NGC 595 a diffuse nebula in the Triangulum Galaxy
esahubble_heic1901c January 7th, 2019
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B. F. Williams (University of Washington)
NGC 595 is is a gigantic region of ionised hydrogen in the Triangulum Galaxy, about three million light-years away. The nebula was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest on 1 October 1864. This image is only a tiny part of the large wide-field image of the Triangulum Galaxy created by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1901c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- heic1901c
- Subject Category
- C.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 595
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B. F. Williams (University of Washington)
- Release Date
- 2019-01-07T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1901c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, g
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 23.3899348291, 30.6922764917
- Reference Dimension
- 2118.0, 2111.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1059.0, 1055.0
- Scale
- -9.76881393815e-06, 9.76881393815e-06
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1901c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1901c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-01-02T18:13:22+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
