A sky full of glittering jewels
esahubble_opo9828d October 21st, 1998
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us a keyhole view towards the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, where a dazzling array of stars reside. Most of the view of our galaxy is obscured by dust. Hubble peered into the Sagittarius Star Cloud, a narrow, dust-free region, providing this spectacular glimpse of a treasure chest full of stars. Some of these gems are among the oldest inhabitants of our galaxy. By studying the older stars that pack our Milky Way's hub, scientists can learn more about the evolution of our galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9828d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9828d
- Subject Category
- B.5
- Subject Name
- Milky Way, Sagittarius
- Credits
- Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
- Release Date
- 1998-10-21T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9828d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 269.7459193, -29.204025
- Reference Dimension
- 1024.0, 1009.0
- Reference Pixel
- 513.0, 505.5
- Scale
- 2.98473864339e-05, 2.97554962637e-05
- Rotation
- -131.06000000000043
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo9828d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9828d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:51:46+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
