M49, NGC 4472
noirlab_noao-02275 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
An elliptical galaxy of type E1 in the constellation Virgo, M49 is a perhaps less well known member of the Virgo Cluster, which contains M87, M86 and M84, amongst others. Nearly spherical, it has almost no gas or dust between its stars and shows no evidence of recent star formation. It is about 60 million light-years away and about 50000 light-years across. KPNO 4-meter Mayall telescope, 1975. We also have a newer color image from the KPNO 0.9-m telescope.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02275/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
- ID
- noao-02275
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M49, NGC 4472
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:50
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02275/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.4152122, 7.942559975
- Reference Dimension
- 2000.0, 2500.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1400.091187, 414.6284485
- Scale
- -6.74e-05, 6.81e-05
- Rotation
- -1.046307128
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-02275
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02275.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:37.012774
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
