Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 Image Details Star Birth in Galaxy M8
stsci_2009-29b November 5th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. This 2009 Hubble Space Telescope image has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants. The image reveals in unprecedented detail the current rapid rate of star birth in this famous "grand design" spiral galaxy.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2009/news-2009-29
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Color Mapping
- ID
- 2009-29b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- M83, NGC 5236, Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2009-11-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Lightyears
- 15,000,000
- Redshift
- 15,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2009/news-2009-29
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 15 million light-years (4.5 million parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- U, [O III], V, Halpha+[N II], I
- Central Wavelength
- 336, 502, 555, 657, 814
- Start Time
- 2009-08-26T00:00:00, 2009-08-26T00:00:00, 2009-08-26T00:00:00, 2009-08-25T00:00:00, 2009-08-26T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- A
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 204.2689475, -29.8610760
- Reference Dimension
- 3909.0, 3930.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1955.5, 1966.0
- Scale
- -1.11163e-05, 1.1116318e-05
- Rotation
- 8.41
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- 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-p0929b-f-3909x3930.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0929b-f-3909x3930.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/29
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
