NGC 253
esahubble_heic0819b September 30th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington), T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, T. Abbott and NOAO/AURA/NSF
NGC 253 is one of brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky, easily visible with small telescopes, and it is composed of thousands of young, blue stars. It is undergoing intense star formation. The image demonstrates the sharp "eye" of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, which is able to show individual stars. The dark filaments are clouds of dust and gas. NGC 253 is the dominant galaxy in the Sculptor Group of galaxies and it resides about 13 million light-years from Earth.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0819b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 253
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington), T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, T. Abbott and NOAO/AURA/NSF
- Release Date
- 2008-09-30T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED.
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 11.9688307597, -25.2299430337
- Reference Dimension
- 15135.0, 3849.0
- Reference Pixel
- 7567.5, 1924.5
- Scale
- -1.39045930049e-05, 1.39045930049e-05
- Rotation
- -139.94
- 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
- heic0819b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0819b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-09-26T10:51:15-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
