Gaseous Bubble in Core of Galaxy NGC 3079
stsci_2001-28c August 16th, 2001
Credit: NASA/ESA, Gerald Cecil (University of North Carolina), Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo-Australian Observatory), and Alex Filippenko (University of California at Berkeley)
A 2001 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3079.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2001/news-2001-28
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2001-28c
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.3.2.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 3079
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, Gerald Cecil (University of North Carolina), Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo-Australian Observatory), and Alex Filippenko (University of California at Berkeley)
- Release Date
- 2001-08-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 50,000,000
- Redshift
- 50,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2001/news-2001-28
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- NII, I
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 150.48675501333, 55.67096703167
- Reference Dimension
- 434.00, 434.00
- Reference Pixel
- -178.24816093935, -137.89055002327
- Scale
- -0.00001968706, 0.00001968706
- Rotation
- -72.02685732920
- 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 FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 703.01 612.66 169.02 96.44 739.14 636.51 154.11 154.11 775.42 712.67 65.62 235.63 844.51 504.42 377.70 239.04 904.92 589.70 288.81 357.02 828.69 751.74 37.09 325.29 Center Pixel Coordinates: 217.00 150.49437112718 217.00 55.68049152403
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p0128c-f-434x434.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0128c-f-434x434.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/28
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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