Globular clusters at the core of NGC 1275

esahubble_opo9202b January 16th, 1992

Credit: J. Holtzman/NASA/ESA

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided intriguing new clues to cataclysmic events in the history of the peculiar galaxy NGC 1275, located approximately 200 million light-years from Earth.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9202b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: IRAS 03164+4119 • NGC 1275 • Perseus A
Subject - General: Galaxy

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 3h 19m 48.1s; DEC = 41° 30’ 45.0”
Orientation: North is 197.6° CCW
Field of View: 0.4 x 0.3 arcminutes
Constellation: Perseus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC1)	Optical (None)	-
Hubble (WFPC1)	Optical (None)	-

ID: opo9202b
Subject Category: E.5
Subject Name: IRAS 03164+4119, NGC 1275, Perseus A
Credits: J. Holtzman/NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1992-01-16T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9202b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC1, WFPC1
Color Assignment: Orange, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: None, None
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 49.9502291147, 41.512511213
Reference Dimension: 2862.0, 2409.0

Reference Pixel: 1431.0, 1204.5
Scale: -2.25720134052e-06, 2.25720134052e-06
Rotation: 197.63999999999993
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Email

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: opo9202b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9202b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:35:37+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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