Edge-on Spiral Galaxy ESO 243-49
stsci_2012-11b February 17th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney)
ESO 243-49 is believed to be home to an intermediate-mass black hole, HLX-1. The edge-on spiral galaxy is 290 million light-years from Earth.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-11
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2012-11b
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.1 D.3.1.10
- Subject Name
- ESO 243-49 HLX-1
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney)
- Release Date
- 2012-02-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 290,000,000
- Redshift
- 290,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-11
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 290 million light-years (100 million parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green, Yellow
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H, C, V, i
- Central Wavelength
- 160, 390, 555, 774
- Start Time
- 2010-09-23T00:00:00, 2010-09-23T00:00:00, 2010-09-23T00:00:00, 2010-09-23T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- S
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 17.61712964842, -46.07060181787
- Reference Dimension
- 1381.00, 1063.00
- Reference Pixel
- 367.31644940455, 667.97176295270
- Scale
- -0.00001101736, 0.00001101736
- Rotation
- 51.11341876903
- 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 1103.38 1276.94 923.21 639.04 1390.82 1234.32 1258.04 70.22 950.91 1040.07 286.99 570.38 1216.46 1015.84 623.04 67.43 822.83 1052.42 126.44 814.90 1237.53 1324.68 1199.45 469.65 Center Pixel Coordinates: 690.50 17.61558723461 531.50 -46.07430755936
- 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-p1211b-f-1381x1063.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1211b-f-1381x1063.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/11
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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