Comparative View of Galaxy's Stellar Populations

esahubble_opo9832g October 8th, 1998

Credit: Rodger I. Thompson (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

In the visible-light picture, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2) in 1995, the galaxy looks uncharacteristically lumpy. That's because only the bright blue knots of starbirth are detected by the WFPC2.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9832g/

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: Ursa Major
Subject - General: Galaxy

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 36m 45.2s; DEC = 62° 12’ 39.7”
Orientation: North is 37.3° CW
Field of View: 0.1 x 0.1 arcminutes
Constellation: Ursa Major

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (b)	450.0 nm

ID: opo9832g
Subject Category: E.5
Subject Name: Ursa Major
Credits: Rodger I. Thompson (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1998-10-08T17:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9832g/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment: Luminosity

Band: Optical
Bandpass: b
Central Wavelength: 450

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Dataset ID: None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 189.188206539, 62.2110190884
Reference Dimension: 300.0, 300.0

Reference Pixel: 150.0, 150.0
Scale: -5.68171658719e-06, 5.68171658719e-06
Rotation: -37.29999999999999
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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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: opo9832g

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9832g.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:51:52+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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