Galaxy M84 Nucleus
esahubble_opo9712b May 12th, 1997
Credit: Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA/ESA
This image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary and Camera 2, shows the core of the galaxy where the suspected black hole dwells. Astronomers mapped the motions of gas in the grip of the black hole's powerful gravitational pull by aligning the STIS's spectroscopic slit across the nucleus in a single exposure.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9712b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
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- ID
- opo9712b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.3 C.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- IRAS 12224+1309, M 84, Messier 84, NGC 4374
- Credits
- Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-05-12T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9712b/
- 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
- Grayscale, Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 547
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.265896777, 12.8865862957
- Reference Dimension
- 571.0, 645.0
- Reference Pixel
- 285.5, 322.5
- Scale
- -1.26160131365e-05, 1.26160131365e-05
- Rotation
- 89.8199999999999
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9712b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9712b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:00+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
