Sail of Stars
esahubble_potw2203a January 17th, 2022
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, R. J. FoleyAcknowledgement: R. Colombari
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation Vela and is roughly 115 million light-years away from Earth. Vela was originally part of a far larger constellation, known as Argo Navis after the fabled ship Argo from Greek mythology, but this unwieldy constellation proved to be impractically large. Argo Navis was split into three separate parts called Carina, Puppis, and Vela — each named after part of the Argo. As befits a galaxy in a nautically inspired constellation, the outer edges of NGC 3318 almost resemble a ship’s sails billowing in a gentle breeze.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/potw2203a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Color Mapping
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Hubble (WFC3) | Optical (I) | 814.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFC3) | Optical (I) | 814.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFC3) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFC3) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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VLT (MUSE) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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VLT (MUSE) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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VLT (MUSE) | Optical (i) | 785.0 nm |
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VLT (MUSE) | Optical (i) | 785.0 nm |
- ID
- potw2203a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 3318
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, R. J. FoleyAcknowledgement: R. Colombari
- Release Date
- 2022-01-17T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/potw2203a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Green, Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, I, V, V, V, V, i, i
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 814, 555, 555, 555, 555, 785, 785
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 159.31761689747043, -41.627529150679315
- Reference Dimension
- 3839.0, 2628.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1919.5, 1314.0
- Scale
- -1.1007154042794577e-05, 1.1007154042794577e-05
- Rotation
- 0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- potw2203a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/potw2203a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2022-01-03T22:34:57+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
