A Surprisingly Close Look at the Early Cosmos
chandra_473 January 10th, 2011
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Virginia/A.Reines et al); Radio (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Optical (NASA/STScI)
Combined observations from Chandra (purple), the Very Large Array (yellow) along with Hubble (red, green, and blue) have provided astronomers with a detailed new look at how galaxy and black hole formation may have occurred in the early Universe. The lack of a significant bulge of stars in the center of Henize 2-10, a galaxy with similar properties to those when the Universe was very young, indicates that black hole growth may be preceding the growth of the bulge. This differs from the relatively nearby Universe where the growth of galaxy bulges and supermassive black holes appear to happen in parallel.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/he210/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Position Details
Color Mapping
| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (H-alpha) | 658.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (I-band) | 814.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (U-band) | 330.0 nm |
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Chandra (ACIS) | X-ray (X-ray) | 826.7 pm |
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NRAO (VLA) | Radio (X-band) | 36.0 mm |
| DatasetID is the PropID for HST, and Observation ID for Chandra | |||
- ID
- 473
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2 C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- Henize 2-10
- Credits
- X-ray (NASA/CXC/Virginia/A.Reines et al); Radio (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Optical (NASA/STScI)
- Release Date
- 2011-01-10
- Lightyears
- 30,000,000
- Redshift
- 30,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/he210/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Chandra, NRAO
- Instrument
- WFPC2, ACS, ACS, ACIS, VLA
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, X-ray, Radio
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, I-band, U-band, X-ray, X-band
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 814, 330, 0.8267, 3.6e7
- Start Time
- 1997-04-03T11:15:00, 2006-03-12T02:34:44, 2006-03-12T05:57:56, 2001-03-23T04:52:23, 2004-12-12
- Integration Time
- 1660, 364, 2604, 19716, -
- Dataset ID
- 6580, 10609, 10609, 2075, -
- Notes
- D
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 129.0633522, -26.4094457
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 2569.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1285.5
- Scale
- 1.93479e-06, 1.9347934e-06
- Rotation
- -0.13
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- 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 Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- he210.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/he210/he210.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-12-06T16:23:26-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
