Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365
noirlab_noao-ngc1365 June 30th, 2020
Credit: SSRO/PROMPT and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
NGC1365 is a giant Seyfert type galaxy in Fornax with a diameter of 200,000 light years. It is arguably the most prominant barred spiral in the sky. The bar rotates clockwise with velocities in the nucleus of 2000 km/sec resulting in one rotation in 350 million years. The knots seen along the bar are areas of intense star formation which occurs because the bar funnels material into this area to trigger star formation. It is thought that the nucleus contains a super massive black hole among the dust lanes visible in the image.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc1365/
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-ngc1365
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 1365
- Credits
- SSRO/PROMPT and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:56
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc1365/
- 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
- 53.48901787, -36.12519091
- Reference Dimension
- 1024.0, 1024.0
- Reference Pixel
- 464.8019028, 970.9835335
- Scale
- -0.000164, 0.000165
- Rotation
- -73.0246305
- 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-ngc1365
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-ngc1365.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2007-01-20T11:40:22-08:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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