The Whirlpool Galaxy
esahubble_opo9617a April 24th, 1996
Credit: Nino Panagia ( Space Telescope Science Institute and European Space Agency) and NASA
The galaxy's massive center, the bright ball of light in the center of the photograph, is about 80 light-years across and has a brightness of about 100 million suns. Astronomers estimate that it is about 400 million years old and has a mass 40 million times larger than our Sun.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9617a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9617a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- IRAS 13277+4727, M 51, Messier 51, NGC 5194, Whirlpool Galaxy
- Credits
- Nino Panagia ( Space Telescope Science Institute and European Space Agency) and NASA
- Release Date
- 1996-04-24T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9617a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 202.4696682, 47.1953747095
- Reference Dimension
- 201.0, 201.0
- Reference Pixel
- 100.5, 100.5
- Scale
- -1.26008040666e-05, 1.26008040666e-05
- Rotation
- 34.1599999999999
- 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
- opo9617a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9617a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:46:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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