Centaurus A captured by the Dark Energy Camera
noirlab_noirlab2125a August 31st, 2021
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA Acknowledgments: PI: M. Soraisam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/NSF NOIRLab) Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
The galaxy Centaurus A, which lies over 12 million light-years away in the direction of the southern-hemisphere constellation Centaurus (The Centaur), is the leading light of this striking image. This image provides a spectacular view of the luminous glow of stars and dark tendrils of dust that hide the bright center of the galaxy. This dust is the result of a past galactic collision, in which a giant elliptical galaxy merged with a smaller spiral galaxy. As well as large amounts of gas and dust, Centaurus A’s dust lane contains widespread star formation, as indicated by the red clouds of hydrogen and by the large numbers of faint blue stars visible at each end of the dust lane. Zoom into the image to see more.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2125a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2125a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Centaurus A
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA Acknowledgments: PI: M. Soraisam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/NSF NOIRLab) Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2021-08-31T09:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2125a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- u, g, r, i, H-alpha, z
- Central Wavelength
- 382, 486, 646, 785, 656, 920
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.362803396, -43.0233548436
- Reference Dimension
- 4050.0, 2044.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2025.0, 1022.0
- Scale
- -7.32983819988e-05, 7.32983819988e-05
- Rotation
- -0.11999999999999998
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noirlab2125a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2125a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-02-18T19:53:08+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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