Hubble-Spitzer colour mosaic of the galactic centre
esahubble_opo0902a January 5th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
This composite colour infrared image of the centre of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionised gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0902a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0902a
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Milky Way
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Release Date
- 2009-01-05T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0902a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, IRAC, IRAC, IRAC, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Orange, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- -, Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 3600, 4500, 5800, 8000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.439090995, -28.9065426141
- Reference Dimension
- 6149.0, 2902.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3074.5, 1451.0
- Scale
- -5.54960898672e-05, 5.54960898672e-05
- Rotation
- 58.360000000000106
- 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
- opo0902a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0902a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:12:15.892806
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
