ALMA's View of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
nrao_NRAO_Gallery_nrao18cb27_Side_by_side
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Cordiner, NASA/CUA; Derek Demeter, Emil Buehler Planetarium
Side-by-side comparison shows an ALMA image of comet 46P/Wirtanen (left) and an optical image (right). The ALMA image has approximately 1000 times the resolution of the optical image and zooms in on the inner portion of the comet\'s diffuse coma.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2018-alma-comet/
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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- ID
- NRAO_Gallery_nrao18cb27_Side_by_side
- Subject Category
- A.2.2
- Subject Name
- Comet 46P/Wirtanen
- Credits
- ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Cordiner, NASA/CUA; Derek Demeter, Emil Buehler Planetarium
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/news/2018-alma-comet/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ALMA
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Millimeter
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- 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/2018/12/nrao18cb27_Side_by_side.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-12-20T09:33:28-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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