Submillimetre and infrared view of the Galactic Centre

Eso_eso0841a_1024

eso_eso0841a November 18th, 2008

Credit: ESO/APEX/2MASS/A. Eckart et al.

This is a colour composite image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy, about 26 000 light years from Earth. Giant clouds of gas and dust are shown in blue, as detected by the LABOCA instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope at submillimetre wavelengths (870 micron). The image also contains near-infrared data from the 2MASS project at K-band (in red), H-band (in green), and J-band (in blue). The image shows a region approximately 100 light-years wide.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0841a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Milky Way Galactic Centre
Subject - Milky Way
Galaxy > Component > Center/Core
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 17h 45m 36.6s
DEC = -29° 0’ 6.5”
Orientation
North is 1.6° CW
Field of View
16.7 x 16.7 arcminutes
Constellation
Sagittarius

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Other (N/A) Infrared (K) 2.2 µm
Green Other (N/A) Infrared (H) 1.7 µm
Blue Other (N/A) Infrared (J) 1.2 µm
Blue APEX (LABOCA) Millimeter (Submillimetre) 870.0 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Red
Green
Blue
Blue
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ID
eso0841a
Subject Category
B.5.4.9  
Subject Name
Milky Way Galactic Centre
Credits
ESO/APEX/2MASS/A. Eckart et al.
Release Date
2008-11-18T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0841a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Other, Other, Other, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
Instrument
N/A, N/A, N/A, LABOCA
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue, Blue
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Millimeter
Bandpass
K, H, J, Submillimetre
Central Wavelength
2159, 1662, 1235, 870000
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
266.402506756, -29.0018090468
Reference Dimension
1280.0, 1280.0
Reference Pixel
697.0, 666.0
Scale
-0.000217029986053, 0.000217029986053
Rotation
-1.57069007041
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso0841a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0841a.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2008-11-18T11:55:49+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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