Star clusters near the center of the galaxy
esahubble_opo9930b September 16th, 1999
Credit: Don Figer ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and NASA/ESA
The Arches cluster is so dense that over 100,000 of its stars would fill a spherical region in space whose radius is the distance between the Sun and its nearest neighbor, the star Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. At least 150 of its stars are among the brightest ever seen in the Galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9930b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9930b
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4
- Subject Name
- Arches Cluster
- Credits
- Don Figer ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1999-09-16T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9930b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/675/2/1278
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Pa-alpha, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 2050, 1870, 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.459537314, -28.8225304291
- Reference Dimension
- 505.0, 507.0
- Reference Pixel
- 252.5, 253.5
- Scale
- -2.10757988872e-05, 2.10757988872e-05
- Rotation
- -45.539999999999957
- 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
- opo9930b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9930b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:54:42+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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