A Great Observatories View
chandra_353 April 30th, 2007
Credit: X-ray: NASA/UMass/Q.D.Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/AURA/Hubble Heritage; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. AZ/R.Kennicutt/SINGS Team
This Great Observatories view of the famous Sombrero galaxy was made using Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer. The main figure shows the combined image from the three telescopes, while the inset images show the separate observatory views. Chandra's X-ray image (in blue) shows hot gas in the galaxy and point sources that are a mixture of objects within the galaxy and quasars in the background. Hubble's optical image (green) reveals the bulge of starlight partially blocked by a rim of dust, which glows brightly in Spitzer's infrared view.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/sombrero/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 353
- Subject Category
- C.5.4.1. C.5.1.1. C.5.4.5.
- Subject Name
- Sombrero Galaxy, M104, NGC 4594
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/UMass/Q.D.Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/AURA/Hubble Heritage; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. AZ/R.Kennicutt/SINGS Team
- Release Date
- 2007-04-30
- Lightyears
- 28,000,000
- Redshift
- 0.003416
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/sombrero/
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACS, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Orange
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- X-ray, V-band, Mid-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, 555, 5800
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 189.94060574, -11.6425533933
- Reference Dimension
- 2776.0, 2400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3137.72749269, 130.480170643
- Scale
- -2.545492e-05, 2.545492e-05
- Rotation
- 0.15277827801
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.0 revision 213+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- sombrero.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/sombrero/sombrero.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-05-30T15:10:27-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
