Big stellar cluster in the blue dwarf galaxy NGC 5253
eso_eso0434b November 18th, 2004
Credit: ESO
Composite colour-coded image of the small starburst galaxy NGC 5253, at a distance of 11 million light-years. It is based on one near-infrared image (in the K-band at wavelength 2.16 μm; here coded red) obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and two images in the visual spectral region (V- (0.55 μm) and I-bands (0.79 μm), here blue and green, respectively) with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image covers 80 x 80 arcseconds on the sky. North is up and East is to the left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0434b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso0434b
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 5253
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2004-11-18T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0434b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Approximate distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, ISAAC
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- I, V, K
- Central Wavelength
- 790, 550, 2160
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 204.982247222, -31.6415430556
- Reference Dimension
- 2156.0, 2428.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1019.38026222, 1243.82695129
- Scale
- -1.054559e-05, 1.054559e-05
- Rotation
- -40.15900925955
- 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
- eso0434b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0434b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-03-08T00:06:55+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
