NGC 4303 as seen with MUSE on ESO’s VLT at several wavelengths of light
eso_eso2110b July 16th, 2021
Credit: ESO/PHANGS
This image, taken by the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the nearby galaxy NGC 4303. NGC 4303 is a spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars and gas at its centre, located approximately 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The image is an overlay of observations conducted at different wavelengths of light to map stellar populations and warm gas. The golden glows mainly correspond to clouds of ionised hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur gas, marking the presence of newly born stars, while the bluish regions in the background reveal the distribution of slightly older stars. The image was taken as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, which is making high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies with telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2110b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- eso2110b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 61, NGC 4303
- Credits
- ESO/PHANGS
- Release Date
- 2021-07-16T14:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2110b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Red, Blue, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, H-alpha, OIII, I, R, G
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 656, 499, 775, 625, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 185.478719961, 4.47357646823
- Reference Dimension
- 888.0, 884.0
- Reference Pixel
- 444.0, 442.0
- Scale
- -5.56236710419e-05, 5.56236710419e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- 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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2110b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2110b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-06-02T10:05:22+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
