Sombrero Galaxy (MIRI)
stsci_2024-137a November 25th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring.
The mid-infrared light highlights the gas and dust that are part of star formation taking place within the Sombrero Galaxy’s outer disk. The rings of the Sombrero Galaxy produce less than one solar mass of stars per year, in comparison to the Milky Way’s roughly two solar masses a year. It’s not a particular hotbed of star formation.
The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-137
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
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- ID
- 2024-137a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1 C.5.1.3
- Subject Name
- Sombrero Galaxy, M104
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
- Release Date
- 2024-11-25
- Lightyears
- 29,350,000
- Redshift
- 29,350,000
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-137
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Webb, Webb, Webb
- Instrument
- MIRI, MIRI, MIRI
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 7700, 11300, 12800
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 189.99489826019, -11.62803261674
- Reference Dimension
- 3898.00, 1303.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1994.56965202707, 466.15143679773
- Scale
- -0.00003080560, 0.00003080560
- Rotation
- -12.20243299371
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 1467.94 1343.93 1324.18 583.13 1690.58 2717.87 2642.02 135.76 753.69 2474.65 2557.69 1100.31 1949.34 252.99 168.55 291.03 Center Pixel Coordinates: 1949.00 189.99753813831 651.50 -11.62271791263
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- https://www.stsci.edu/
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-p24137a-f-3898x1303.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-137/STSCI-J-p24137a-f-3898x1303.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-12-18T16:19:10-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
