Warm gas clouds and stars in NGC 4303 mapped with MUSE on ESO’s VLT
eso_ngc4303-muse-ha July 16th, 2021
Credit: ESO/PHANGS
This image of the nearby galaxy NGC 4303 was taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The bright reddish glows map warm clouds of hydrogen (Hα), marking the presence of newly born stars, while the bluish regions (a combination of green, red and infrared filters) reveal the distribution of slightly older stars. 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 images were 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/ngc4303-muse-ha/
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
Color Mapping
- ID
- ngc4303-muse-ha
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4303
- Credits
- ESO/PHANGS
- Release Date
- 2021-07-16T14:00:52.906245
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ngc4303-muse-ha/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- None, None, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red, Blue, Red, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- None, None, H-alpha, I, R, G
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 625, 775, 501, 656, 673
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 185.478832997, 4.4735769585
- Reference Dimension
- 885.0, 880.0
- Reference Pixel
- 442.5, 440.0
- Scale
- -5.55345499833e-05, 5.55345499833e-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
- ngc4303-muse-ha
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ngc4303-muse-ha.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-06-02T09:26:11+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
