The galactic centre
eso_galactic_center_hi May 22nd, 2017
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
The view of the centre of our galaxy with a closer view of the object known as Sagittarius A*, the bright radio source that corresponds to the supermassive black hole.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/galactic_center_hi/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- galactic_center_hi
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- Milky Way Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A*
- Credits
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Release Date
- 2017-05-22T13:47:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/galactic_center_hi/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Very Large Array
- Instrument
- IRAC, MIPS, IRAC, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Cyan, Cyan, Orange, Purple
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Millimeter, Radio
- Bandpass
- -, -, -, -, 1.4 GHz
- Central Wavelength
- 4500, 8000, 4500, 1100000, 200000000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.739371316, -28.558418526
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 1527.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1500.0, 763.5
- Scale
- -0.000719141875484, 0.000719141875484
- Rotation
- 58.760000000000133
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- galactic_center_hi
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/galactic_center_hi.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-05-22T12:44:11+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
