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NGC 4660 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies

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esahubble_heic0815b August 5th, 2008

Credit: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

Virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4660, na elliptical located about 50 million light-years from Earth. Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0815b/

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: NGC 4660
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 44m 31.7s; DEC = 11° 11’ 27.6”
Orientation: North is 123.8° CW
Field of View: 1.7 x 1.7 arcminutes
Constellation: Virgo

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
	Hubble (ACS)	Optical (B)	475.0 nm

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ID: heic0815b
Subject Category: C.5.1.4
Subject Name: NGC 4660
Credits: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

Release Date: 2008-08-05T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0815b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS, ACS
Color Assignment: Yellow, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical
Bandpass: I, B
Central Wavelength: 814, 475

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 191.132223, 11.1909886
Reference Dimension: 2000.0, 2000.0

Reference Pixel: 1001.0, 1001.0
Scale: -1.39086e-05, 1.3908646e-05
Rotation: -123.84
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Email

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: heic0815b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0815b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:03.362236
Metadata Version: 1.1

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