M15 globular cluster core
esahubble_opo9023a January 16th, 1991
Credit: NASA/ESA
This picture shows the central region of the globular cluster M15 as imaged by the Planetary Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. M15 is a tightly bound cluster of about a million stars contained within our own galaxy. At the center of the image, the density of stars is roughly a million times what it is in our own part of the galaxy. Analysis of this image shows that M15 is now recovering from an implosion in which the stars in the cluster center collapsed into a dense aggregate. This image has been processed to remove the effects of spherical aberration. At the distance of M15, the region shown is 2.26 light years on a side.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9023a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9023a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- M 15, Messier 15, NGC 7078
- Credits
- NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1991-01-16T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9023a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC1
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 322.493441923, 12.1658054759
- Reference Dimension
- 2554.0, 2388.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1277.0, 1194.0
- Scale
- -1.20591202585e-06, 1.20591202585e-06
- Rotation
- -288.70000000000022
- 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
- opo9023a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9023a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:32:57+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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