Core of galaxy NGC 4261

esahubble_opo9547a December 4th, 1995

Credit: L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA/ESA

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of an 800-light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling a massive black hole in the centreof galaxy, NGC 4261, located 100 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9547a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 4261
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical; Galaxy > Component > Central Black Hole

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 19m 23.2s; DEC = 5° 49’ 29.7”
Orientation: North is 110.3° CCW
Field of View: 0.1 x 0.1 arcminutes
Constellation: Virgo

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (I)	791.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (R)	675.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	547.0 nm

ID: opo9547a
Subject Category: C.5.1.4 C.5.4.6
Subject Name: NGC 4261
Credits: L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1995-12-04T12:30:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9547a/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from NED

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, V
Central Wavelength: 791, 675, 547

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 184.84669745, 5.82492753585
Reference Dimension: 386.0, 360.0

Reference Pixel: 193.0, 180.0
Scale: -3.12770432128e-06, 3.12770432128e-06
Rotation: 110.30000000000007
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Telephone
Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9547a

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9547a.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:45:14+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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