Fireworks near galaxy NGC 4151 (STIS optical)
esahubble_opo9718e June 9th, 1997
Credit: John Hutchings (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), Bruce Woodgate (GSFC/NASA/ESA), Mary Beth Kaiser (Johns Hopkins University), Steven Kraemer(Catholic University of America), and the STIS Team
In this false colour image the two emission lines of oxygen gas (the weaker one at 4959 Angstroms and the stronger one at 5007 Angstroms) are clearly visible. The horizontal line passing through the image is from the light generated by the powerful black hole at the center of NGC 4151.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9718e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9718e
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.3.2.2
- Subject Name
- IRAS 12080+3941, NGC 4151
- Credits
- John Hutchings (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), Bruce Woodgate (GSFC/NASA/ESA), Mary Beth Kaiser (Johns Hopkins University), Steven Kraemer(Catholic University of America), and the STIS Team
- Release Date
- 1997-06-09T18:45:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9718e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- STIS , STIS
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor, Pseudocolor
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 500, 495
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 1024.0, 513.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- opo9718e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9718e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:20+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
