NGC 3077

esahubble_heic0819d September 30th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

The dark clumps of material scattered around the bright nucleus of NGC 3077 are pieces of wreckage from the galaxy's interactions with its larger neighbours. NGC 3077 is a member of the M81 group of galaxies and it resides 12.5 million light-years from Earth.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819d/

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 3077
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Size > Dwarf

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 3m 21.4s; DEC = 68° 44’ 3.3”
Orientation: North is 27.2° CCW
Field of View: 2.2 x 1.2 arcminutes
Constellation: Ursa Major

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (B)	475.0 nm

ID: heic0819d
Subject Category: C.5.2.2
Subject Name: NGC 3077
Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

Release Date: 2008-09-30T16:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS, ACS, ACS
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, V, B
Central Wavelength: 814, 606, 475

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Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 150.83936, 68.73424
Reference Dimension: 1491.0, 830.0

Reference Pixel: 746.5, 416.0
Scale: -2.42936e-05, 2.429361e-05
Rotation: 27.15
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
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: heic0819d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0819d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2008-09-25T10:17:44-04:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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