Chandra's Archives Come to Life
chandra_581d October 21st, 2014
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO, Optical: NASA/STScI, Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
With the passing of Chandra's 15th anniversary, the Chandra Data Archive, which houses all of the mission's data, continues to grow each successive year. These images - that include a wide range of astronomical objects -- combine X-rays from Chandra's archive with data from other telescopes. This technique of creating "multi wavelength" images allows scientists and the public to see how X-rays fit with data of other types of light, such as optical, radio, and infrared.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/archives/
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
- ID
- 581d
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2
- Subject Name
- Hercules A
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO, Optical: NASA/STScI, Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
- Release Date
- 2014-10-21
- Lightyears
- 2,100,000,000
- Redshift
- 0.156
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/archives/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLA, VLA, Hubble, Hubble, Chandra
- Instrument
- VLA, VLA, WFC3, WFC3, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Orange, Blue, Magenta
- Band
- Radio, Radio, Optical, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- C-Band, X-Band, I-band, V-band, X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 6e7, 3.6e7, 814, 607, 0.8267
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 252.7840599, 4.9920737
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 2556.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1279.0
- Scale
- 1.5389e-05, 1.5389004e-05
- Rotation
- -36.25
- 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 Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- archives_herca.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/archives/archives_herca.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-10-21
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
