Hubble SWEEPS Field
stsci_2015-38c November 5th, 2015
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI), and the SWEEPS Science Team
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. The smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars can yield clues to our galaxy's early construction stages that happened long before Earth and our sun formed. This is a small section of Hubble's view of the dense collection of stars crammed together in the galactic bulge. The region surveyed is part of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) field and is located 26,000 light-years away.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-38
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2015-38c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- SWEEPS Field
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI), and the SWEEPS Science Team
- Release Date
- 2015-11-05T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-38
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS/WFC, ACS/WFC
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 269.75356812651, -29.19956544039
- Reference Dimension
- 6738.00, 6711.00
- Reference Pixel
- 3797.89709545059, 4128.40663524324
- Scale
- -0.00000836192, 0.00000836192
- Rotation
- 0.11816520185
- 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
- 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-p1538c-f-6738x6711.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1538c-f-6738x6711.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
