Spectacular Hubble view of Centaurus A
esahubble_heic1110a June 16th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: R. O’Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material. Hubbles new observations, using its most advanced instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3, are the most detailed ever made of this galaxy. They have been combined here in a multi-wavelength image which reveals never-before-seen detail in the dusty portion of the galaxy. As well as features in the visible spectrum, this composite shows ultraviolet light, which comes from young stars, and near-infrared light, which lets us glimpse some of the detail otherwise obscured by the dust.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1110a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1110a
- Subject Category
- C.5 C.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- Centaurus A, NGC 5128
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: R. O’Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
- Release Date
- 2011-06-16T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1110a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Blue, Cyan, Green, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, B, V, V, 673, 657, I
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.343949958, -43.0066222858
- Reference Dimension
- 4027.0, 4174.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2013.5, 2087.0
- Scale
- -1.10013190257e-05, 1.10013190257e-05
- Rotation
- -69.100000000000136
- 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
- heic1110a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1110a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-06-07T17:11:42+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
