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NGC 628, PHANGS-ALMA and HST Composite

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Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); NASA/Hubble

Composite ALMA (orange) and Hubble (blue) image of NGC 628, also known as Messier 74, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces, located approximately 32 million light-years from Earth. It is imaged as part of the PHANGS-ALMA survey to study the properties of star-forming clouds in disk galaxies.

Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2019-alma-phangs/

Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 0628 • M74
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Distance

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32,000,000 light years

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 1h 36m 41.7s; DEC = 15° 47’ 1.0”
Orientation: North is 0.1° CCW
Field of View: 5.4 x 5.3 arcminutes
Constellation: Pisces

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	ALMA	Radio	-
	ALMA	Radio	-
	Hubble	Optical	-

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ID: NRAO_Gallery_nrao18cb12d
Subject Category: C.5.1.1
Subject Name: NGC 0628, M74
Credits: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); NASA/Hubble

Release Date
Lightyears: 32E+06
Redshift: 32E+06
Reference Url: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2019-alma-phangs/

Type: Observation
Image Quality: Good
Distance Notes

Facility: ALMA, ALMA, HST
Instrument
Color Assignment: Yellow, Red, Full Color

Band: Radio, Radio, Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength: -, -

Start Time: 2017-10-04T14:00:55.074000
Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: 2000.0
Reference Value: 24.17375000000, 15.78361111111
Reference Dimension: 2500, 2486

Reference Pixel: 1255.42391709610, 1228.87826357422
Scale: -0.00003573973, 0.00003573973
Rotation: 0.12751418810
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes: World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center

Creator (Curator): NRAO/AUI/NSF
URL: https://public.nrao.edu
Name: NRAO/AUI/NSF
Email: outreach@nrao.edu

Telephone
Address: 520 Edgemont Road
City: Charlottesville
State/Province: Virginia

Postal Code: 22903
Country: USA
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Publisher: NRAO/AUI/NSF
Publisher ID: nrao
Resource ID

Resource URL: https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nrao18cb12d.jpg
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Metadata Date: 2019-01-10T16:05:13+00:00
Metadata Version: 1.2

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