Star Field in M31 Imaged by Hubble WFC3
stsci_2011-15b May 23rd, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the star field around the Cepheid variable V1 in M31. This two-color image shows individually resolved stars in the outer disk of the Andromeda Galaxy. The soft, brown swirls are dust lanes obscuring light from stars farther away from our line of sight. The blue cluster towards the upper right of the image contains massive young stars that are emanating intense ultraviolet light. The Cepheid variable, V1, the first Cepheid ever found outside of our own galaxy, is a moderate-looking star in the lower left of the image.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2011/news-2011-15
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2011-15b
- Subject Category
- C.5 C.3.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- M31-V1
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2011-05-23T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 2,500,000
- Redshift
- 2,500,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2011/news-2011-15
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/UVIS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Wide Blue, Long pass
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 10.34512424652, 41.15989189097
- Reference Dimension
- 7908.00, 7910.00
- Reference Pixel
- 3924.79229056205, 3942.08401204073
- Scale
- -0.00000556352, 0.00000556352
- Rotation
- 75.13591349942
- 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 2107.26 1429.28 5424.04 1062.26 2023.34 1917.89 7210.02 1880.03 2122.58 920.75 3491.11 489.26 1834.26 595.71 1953.04 1261.51 Center Pixel Coordinates: 3954.00 10.34496961685 3955.00 41.15975496285
- 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-p1115b-f-7908x7910.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1115b-f-7908x7910.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/15
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
