Disk around a black hole in galaxy NGC 7052 (Hubble WFPC2 view)

esahubble_opo9822b June 18th, 1998

Credit: Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Frank C. van den Bosch (Univ. of Washington), and NASA/ESA .

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, in visible light. Details as small as 50 light-years across can be seen.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9822b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

View Options

Fullscreen

View in WorldWide Telescope

Download Options

Full Size Image (489 x 438)
JPG (35.3 KB) Source File

Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 7052
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical; Galaxy > Component > Central Black Hole

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 21h 18m 33.1s; DEC = 26° 26’ 49.2”
Orientation: North is 153.4° CW
Field of View: 0.1 x 0.1 arcminutes
Constellation: Vulpecula

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical	-

ID: opo9822b
Subject Category: C.5.1.4 C.5.4.6
Subject Name: NGC 7052
Credits: Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Frank C. van den Bosch (Univ. of Washington), and NASA/ESA .

Release Date: 1998-06-18T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9822b/

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

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment

Band: Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 319.637748247, 26.4469895544
Reference Dimension: 489.0, 438.0

Reference Pixel: 244.5, 219.0
Scale: -3.04467634991e-06, 3.04467634991e-06
Rotation: -153.39999999999995
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email

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: opo9822b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9822b.tif
Related Resources

Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:51:28+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.