The majestic globular Omega Centauri
esahubble_heic0809a April 2nd, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Acknowlegement: A. Cool (San Francisco State Univ.) and J. Anderson (STScI)
A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and data obtained by the GMOS spectrograph on the Gemini South telescope in Chile show that Omega Centauri appears to harbour an elusive intermediate-mass black hole in its centre.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0809a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0809a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 5139, Omega Centauri
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Acknowlegement: A. Cool (San Francisco State Univ.) and J. Anderson (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2008-04-02T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0809a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- SDSS, None, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, Pseudogreen (B+R), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.692796361, -47.4736753534
- Reference Dimension
- 11936.0, 10891.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5968.0, 5445.5
- Scale
- -1.39146090425e-05, 1.39146090425e-05
- Rotation
- 5.9600000000000426
- 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
- heic0809a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0809a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-03-26T16:54:53-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
