Wide-field view of the Andromeda Galaxy
esahubble_heic1112f July 21st, 2011
Credit: ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This ground-based image shows the full extent of the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M 31. The Andromeda Galaxy appears very large in the sky several times the size of the full Moon (although much fainter). Hubble is designed to make highly detailed observations of much smaller patches of sky: the space telescopes observations of the Andromeda Galaxy show individual stars and clusters rather than the broad spiral structure visible here. Wide-field images like this one give a broad overview.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1112f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1112f
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Andromeda Galaxy, Messier 31
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2011-07-21T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1112f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 10.7523331482, 41.2596417071
- Reference Dimension
- 21299.0, 13775.0
- Reference Pixel
- 10649.5, 6887.5
- Scale
- -0.000283216970837, 0.000283216970837
- Rotation
- 1.9200000000000017
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1112f
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1112f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-06-09T10:49:02+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
