Ground-based image of Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395
esahubble_opo9319a July 16th, 1993
Credit: Allan Sandage, Carnegie Institution
This photograph of the nearest Seyfert galaxy, NGC 4395, was taken with the Palomar 200-inch telescope. NGC 4395 is the least luminous and nearest Seyfert galaxy known, located eight million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). A Seyfert galaxy is a class of nearby galaxy that has an extremely bright central region that often obscure the much dimmer stars in the surrounding disk. The nucleus gives off prodigious amounts of energy largely in the form of high-energy x-rays and gamma rays.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9319a/
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
- ID
- opo9319a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 4295
- Credits
- Allan Sandage, Carnegie Institution
- Release Date
- 1993-07-16T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9319a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.451146722, 33.5464659759
- Reference Dimension
- 2960.0, 2384.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1480.0, 1192.0
- Scale
- -7.23878030264e-05, 7.23878030264e-05
- Rotation
- 0.24000000000000007
- 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
- opo9319a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9319a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:39:40+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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