Globular Cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy
esahubble_opo9611a April 24th, 1996
Credit: Michael Rich, Kenneth Mighell, and James D. Neill (Columbia University), and Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), and NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the centre of the photograph consisting of at least 300, 000 old stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9611a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9611a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- Mayall II
- Credits
- Michael Rich, Kenneth Mighell, and James D. Neill (Columbia University), and Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-04-24T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9611a/
- 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
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, I, V
- Central Wavelength
- 1042, 814, 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 8.19399782914, 39.5779444372
- Reference Dimension
- 573.0, 573.0
- Reference Pixel
- 286.5, 286.5
- Scale
- -1.25915825928e-05, 1.25915825928e-05
- Rotation
- 79.160000000000025
- 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
- opo9611a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9611a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:46:02+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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