Hubble identifies source of ultraviolet light in an old nebula
esahubble_opo9940a October 26th, 1999
Credit: NASA/ESA and Thomas M. Brown, Charles W. Bowers, Randy A. Kimble, AllenV. Sweigart (NASA/ESA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Henry C. Ferguson ( Space Telescope Science Institute )
Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite resolution has allowed astronomers to resolve, for the first time, hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. The swarm of nearly 8, 000 blue stars resembles a blizzard of snowflakes near the core (lower right) of the neighboring galaxy M 32, located 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9940a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9940a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4 C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- Messier 32, NGC 221
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and Thomas M. Brown, Charles W. Bowers, Randy A. Kimble, AllenV. Sweigart (NASA/ESA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Henry C. Ferguson ( Space Telescope Science Institute )
- Release Date
- 1999-10-26T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9940a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- STIS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 10.6742041302, 40.8625085734
- Reference Dimension
- 966.0, 939.0
- Reference Pixel
- 483.0, 469.0
- Scale
- -6.81085607948e-06, 6.81085607948e-06
- Rotation
- 244.96000000000035
- 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
- opo9940a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9940a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:55:12+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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