A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300
esahubble_opo0501a January 11th, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever made of a complete galaxy is being unveiled today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, Calif. The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. NGC 1300 is considered to be prototypical of barred spiral galaxies. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0501a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0501a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 1300
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2005-01-11T01:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0501a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 49.9192536, -19.4120509
- Reference Dimension
- 6637.0, 3787.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3319.5, 1894.5
- Scale
- 1.39017404438e-05, 1.38905317193e-05
- Rotation
- -29.9
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo0501a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0501a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-12-08T08:46:43-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
