Hubble-Spitzer composite of the galactic centre (full-field)
esahubble_opo0902d January 5th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and S. Stolovy (Caltech)
This composite colour infrared image combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with colour imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC). This combination gives a clear picture of the centre of the Milky Way galaxy and reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in the complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0902d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0902d
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Milky Way
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and S. Stolovy (Caltech)
- Release Date
- 2009-01-05T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0902d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, IRAC, IRAC, IRAC, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 3600, 4500, 5800
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.374807938, -28.9885511457
- Reference Dimension
- 12203.0, 4731.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6101.5, 2365.5
- Scale
- -5.55656265402e-05, 5.55656265402e-05
- Rotation
- 58.55999999999996
- 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
- opo0902d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0902d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:41:02.967154
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
