Stellar fireworks are ablaze in galaxy NGC 4449
esahubble_heic0711a July 3rd, 2007
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Hundreds of thousands of vibrant blue and red stars are visible in this new image of galaxy NGC 4449 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hot bluish white clusters of massive stars are scattered throughout the galaxy, interspersed with numerous dustier reddish regions of current star formation. Massive dark clouds of gas and dust are silhouetted against the flaming starlight.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0711a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0711a
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 4449
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
- Release Date
- 2007-07-03T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0711a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/hv817v59v5r67578/
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.03948685, 44.0990028
- Reference Dimension
- 8736.0, 5630.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4647.72876214, 2771.71841973
- Scale
- -9.73219e-06, 9.73219e-06
- Rotation
- -141.236
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0711a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0711a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2007-06-25T11:29:55-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
