Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049
esahubble_heic0905a April 7th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA and W. Harris (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of NGC 7049 in the constellation of Indus, in the southern sky. A family of globular clusters appears as glittering spots dusted around the galaxy halo. Astronomers study the globular clusters in NGC 7049 to learn more about its formation and evolution. The dust lanes, which appear as a lacy web, are dramatically backlit by the millions of stars in the halo of NGC 7049.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0905a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- heic0905a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 7049
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and W. Harris (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)
- Release Date
- 2009-04-07T10:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0905a/
- 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, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, Pseudogreen (B+I), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 319.750690358, -48.5619874079
- Reference Dimension
- 1766.0, 1948.0
- Reference Pixel
- 883.0, 974.0
- Scale
- -1.38623377276e-05, 1.38623377276e-05
- Rotation
- 46.18
- 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
- heic0905a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0905a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-02-06T17:27:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
