M99
noirlab_noao-m99block February 24th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
M99 is one of many spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, resides on the outskirts of this collection of many thousand galaxies. Unlike our own galaxy, M99 is disturbed due to interactions with other massive galaxies nearby (not shown). It almost looks as if the spiral arms are being blown by some celestial wind from below. While this is not true, at a distance of 60 million light years this galaxy proudly displays bright blue and red star formation in the its spiral arms. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m99block/
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
Color Mapping
- ID
- noao-m99block
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M99
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-02-24T13:31:29
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m99block/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Broad Band, B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 184.629514961, 14.4910281901
- Reference Dimension
- 1460.0, 2176.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1008.50059509, 2009.1823988
- Scale
- -9.41034771045e-05, 9.42633727846e-05
- Rotation
- 22.275764520544
- 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-m99block
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m99block.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:30:01+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
