ALMA image of the gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81
eso_ann15028a April 7th, 2015
Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF
The bright orange central region of the ring (ALMA's highest-resolution observation ever) reveals the glowing dust in this distant galaxy. The surrounding lower-resolution portions of the ring trace the millimetre-wavelength light emitted by carbon dioxide and water molecules.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann15028a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- ann15028a
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8
- Subject Name
- Credits
- ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Release Date
- 2015-04-07T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann15028a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- Millimeter
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 2153.0, 2153.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- NRAO
- 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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- ann15028a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ann15028a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:22:08.556401
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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