Galactic centre region in near-infrared from Hubble
esahubble_opo0928e November 10th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q.D. Wang (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) and STScI
Although best known for its visible-light images, the Hubble Space Telescope also observes over a limited range of infrared light. The galactic centre is marked by the bright patch in the lower right. Along the left side are large arcs of warm gas that have been heated by clusters of bright massive stars. In addition, Hubble uncovered many more massive stars across the region. Winds and radiation from these stars create the complex structures seen in the gas throughout the image. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the galactic centre region.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0928e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0928e
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Sagittarius
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Q.D. Wang (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) and STScI
- Release Date
- 2009-11-10T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0928e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from the Max-Planck-Institute (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/SPIFFI/preprints/first_result_an1.pdf)
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Yellow, Yellow
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Pa-alpha/Continuum, Pa-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 1900, 1870
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.442476891, -28.9043387764
- Reference Dimension
- 6300.0, 3000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3150.0, 1500.0
- Scale
- -5.55275568565e-05, 5.55275568565e-05
- Rotation
- 58.659999999999968
- 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
- opo0928e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0928e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:12:15.753459
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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