The galactic centre
esahubble_heic1606a March 31st, 2016
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, T. Do and A. Ghez (UCLA), and V. Bajaj (STScI)
This infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Using the infrared capabilities of Hubble, astronomers were able to peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of this interesting region. At the centre of this nuclear star cluster and also in the centre of this image the Milky Ways supermassive black hole is located.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1606a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1606a
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A*
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, T. Do and A. Ghez (UCLA), and V. Bajaj (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2016-03-31T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1606a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H2O and NH3, H2O/CH4 line, H2O/CH4 continuum
- Central Wavelength
- 1532, 1384, 1274
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.417569626, -29.0086209331
- Reference Dimension
- 5174.0, 4469.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2587.0, 2234.5
- Scale
- -2.08410771149e-05, 2.08410771149e-05
- Rotation
- 44.95999999999998
- 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
- heic1606a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1606a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T10:29:54.299233
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
