HUBBLE SURVEY UNLOCKS CLUES TO STAR BIRTH IN NEIGHBORING GALAXY
stsci_2015-18b September 3rd, 2015
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler
This is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of 414 photographs of the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The vast panorama was assembled from nearly 8,000 separate exposures taken in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. Embedded within this view are 2,753 star clusters. The view is 61,600 light-years across and contains images of 117 million stars in the galaxy's disk.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-18
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2015-18b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Andromeda Galaxy, M 31, Messier 31
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler
- Release Date
- 2015-09-03T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-18
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- b, I
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 11.1541387615, 41.5927245494
- Reference Dimension
- 69536.0, 22230.0
- Reference Pixel
- 34768.0, 11115.0
- Scale
- -1.38979163624e-05, 1.38979163624e-05
- Rotation
- -123.5474802
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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-p1518b-f-26004x9289.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1518b-f-26004x9289.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2021-12-13T14:59:02-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
