Globular Cluster M 15
esahubble_opo9506c November 8th, 1995
Credit: P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz), B. Yanny (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), D. Schneider (Pennsylvania State Univ.), J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), and NASA/ESA
This mosaic of the globular cluster M15 (fifteenth object in the Messier catalog of star clusters and nebulae) contains over 30, 000 stars. The Hubble Space Telescope probed the core of M15, the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our galaxy, to look for evidence of either a massive black hole or another remarkable phenomenon: a 'core collapse' driven by the intense gravitational pull of so many stars in such a small volume of space.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9506c/
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
- opo9506c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- M 15, Messier 15, NGC 7078
- Credits
- P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz), B. Yanny (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), D. Schneider (Pennsylvania State Univ.), J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1995-11-08T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9506c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- V, B, Near-UV
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 439, 336
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 322.493474898, 12.165863045
- Reference Dimension
- 201.0, 201.0
- Reference Pixel
- 100.5, 100.5
- Scale
- -1.26474620111e-05, 1.26474620111e-05
- Rotation
- 44.219999999999956
- 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
- opo9506c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9506c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:43:34+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
