Hubble Images Majestic Cousin of the Milky Way
esahubble_opo0425a August 5th, 2004
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Our Sun and solar system are embedded in a broad pancake of stars deep within the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. Even from a distance, it is impossible to see our galaxy's large-scale features other than the disk. The next best thing is to look farther out into the universe at galaxies that are similar in shape and structure to our home galaxy. Other spiral galaxies like NGC 3949, pictured in the Hubble image, fit the bill.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0425a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
-
View Options
Download Options
-
Full Size Image
(1183 x 834)
JPG (222 KB) Source File
- Additional Sizes (JPG)
- 320 x 225 (26.5 KB)
- 1024 x 721 (166 KB)
- 500 x 352 (47 KB)
- 1280 x 902 (224 KB)
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0425a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- IRAS F11510+4808, NGC 3949
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2004-08-05T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0425a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 450
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 178.423706479, 47.8594366029
- Reference Dimension
- 1183.0, 834.0
- Reference Pixel
- 591.5, 417.0
- Scale
- -2.76633927525e-05, 2.76633927525e-05
- Rotation
- 162.66000000000014
- 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
- opo0425a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0425a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-07-22T16:35:16-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
