NGC 3079
noirlab_noao-n3079hapeman_2 March 13th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Jeff Hapeman/Adam Block
If you could speed up time and watch this galaxy evolve, the center of NGC 3079 would bubble with hot gas not unlike the shallow lava pits of Hawaii. A burst of star formation is creating tremendous stellar winds and accelerating particles and gas to many thousands of light years above (and beneath) the plane of the galaxy. These filaments of gas glow strongly in the emission given off by excited hydrogen atoms. The Hubble Space Telescope image obviously shows this feature with much more clarity. Interestingly, this gas will not reach escape velocity, but will rain back down onto the plane of the galaxy and potentially trigger more star formation! This colorful spiral galaxy is at a distance of 50 million light years away. 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-n3079hapeman_2/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Position Details
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- ID
- noao-n3079hapeman_2
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 3079
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Jeff Hapeman/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-03-13T14:10:05
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n3079hapeman_2/
- 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
- 150.420222063, 55.7313264822
- Reference Dimension
- 1472.0, 2184.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1059.6811676, 626.23480225
- Scale
- -9.46596759438e-05, 9.47056411161e-05
- Rotation
- -113.49266649184
- 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-n3079hapeman_2
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n3079hapeman_2.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:36+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
