Spitzer image of M101
esahubble_opo0907g February 10th, 2009
Credit: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech and K. Gordon (STScI)
The galaxy Messier 101 is a swirling spiral of stars, gas, and dust. Messier 101 is nearly twice as wide as our Milky Way galaxy. Spitzer's view, taken in infrared light, reveals the galaxy's delicate dust lanes as yellow-green filaments. Such dense dust clouds are where new stars can form. In this image, dust warmed by the light of hot, young stars glows red. The rest of the galaxy's hundreds of billions of stars are less prominent and form a blue haze. Astronomers can use infrared light to examine the dust clouds where stars are born.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0907g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0907g
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 101, NGC 4547, Pinwheel
- Credits
- NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech and K. Gordon (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2009-02-10T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0907g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope
- Instrument
- MIPS, IRAC, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Mid-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 24000, 8000, 3600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 210.789265536, 54.3537190003
- Reference Dimension
- 7200.0, 7200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Scale
- -4.11483308525e-05, 4.11483308525e-05
- Rotation
- -0.13999999999984
- 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
- opo0907g
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0907g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:41:02.786920
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
