White Dwarf Stars in M4

esahubble_opo9532b August 28th, 1995

Credit: Kitt Peak National Observatory 0.9-meter telescope, National Optical Astronomy Observatories; courtesy M. Bolte (Universityof California, Santa Cruz)

A view of globular cluster M4 (fourth object in the Messier catalog of star clusters and nebulae). The nearest globular cluster to Earth (7, 000 light-years away), and containing more than 100, 000 stars, M4 was the target of a Hubble Space Telescope search for white dwarf stars.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9532b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: M 4 • Messier 4 • NGC 6121
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Grouping > Cluster > Globular

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 16h 23m 34.7s; DEC = -26° 31’ 23.6”
Orientation: North is 181.1° CCW
Field of View: 13.1 x 13.1 arcminutes
Constellation: Scorpius

ID: opo9532b
Subject Category: B.3.6.4.2
Subject Name: M 4, Messier 4, NGC 6121
Credits: Kitt Peak National Observatory 0.9-meter telescope, National Optical Astronomy Observatories; courtesy M. Bolte (Universityof California, Santa Cruz)

Release Date: 1995-08-28T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9532b/

Type: Observation
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 245.894622238, -26.5232095381
Reference Dimension: 1000.0, 1000.0

Reference Pixel: 500.0, 500.0
Scale: -0.000219086058036, 0.000219086058036
Rotation: 181.13999999999976
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9532b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9532b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:44:23+01:00
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