The antennae galaxies - NGC4038/9
eso_eso0209a March 13th, 2002
Credit: ESO
One of the first images from the new VIMOS facility, obtained right after the moment of "first light" on February 26, 2002. It shows the famous "Antennae Galaxies" (NGC 4038/9), the result of a recent collision between two galaxies. As an immediate outcome of this dramatic event, stars are born within massive complexes that appear blue in this composite photo, based on exposures through green, orange and red optical filters. Individual exposures of 60 seconds each; image quality 0.6 arcsec FWHM; the field measures 3.5 x 3.5 arcmin2. North is up and East is left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0209a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0209a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Antennae Galaxies
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2002-03-13T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0209a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- VIMOS, VIMOS, VIMOS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 180.472105, -18.877127
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 796.0
- Reference Pixel
- 360.026181724, 423.877251909
- Scale
- -7.155954e-05, 7.155954e-05
- Rotation
- 0.05884897840
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0209a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0209a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-07T16:27+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
