Hint of planet-sized drifters bewilders Hubble scientists (ground-based view)

esahubble_heic0107c June 27th, 2001

Credit: N.A.Sharp, REU program/AURA/NOAO/NSF

This is a ground-based view of the globular cluster M22 made from CCD images taken in June 1995 at the Burrell Schmidt telescope of the Warner and Swasey Observatory of the Case Western Reserve University, located on Kitt Peak in Southwestern Arizona, USA.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0107c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Messier 22 • NGC 6656
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Grouping > Cluster > Globular

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 18h 36m 23.9s; DEC = -23° 54’ 11.8”
Orientation: North is 1.9° CCW
Field of View: 34.7 x 26.0 arcminutes
Constellation: Sagittarius

ID: heic0107c
Subject Category: B.3.6.4.2
Subject Name: Messier 22, NGC 6656
Credits: N.A.Sharp, REU program/AURA/NOAO/NSF

Release Date: 2001-06-27T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0107c/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07599.x/full

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Notes: T

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 279.099744948, -23.903275208
Reference Dimension: 1024.0, 768.0

Reference Pixel: 512.0, 384.0
Scale: -0.000564437664795, 0.000564437664795
Rotation: 1.9400000000000004
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic0107c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0107c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:04:45+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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