The centre of the Milky Way*
eso_eso0846a December 10th, 2008
Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al.
The central parts of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. By following the motions of the most central stars over more than 16 years, astronomers were able to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole that lurks there.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0846a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0846a
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Galactic Centre
- Credits
- ESO/S. Gillessen et al.
- Release Date
- 2008-12-10T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0846a/
- 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
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- NACO, NACO, NACO
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- I, H, K
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.417038167, -29.0065441679
- Reference Dimension
- 900.0, 900.0
- Reference Pixel
- 450.0, 450.0
- Scale
- -7.54145770434e-06, 7.54145770434e-06
- Rotation
- -0.34000000000000008
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0846a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0846a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-11-18T17:15:37+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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