The centre of the active galaxy NGC 1097
eso_eso0534a October 17th, 2005
Credit: ESO/Prieto et al.
Colour-composite image of the central 5,500 light-years wide region of the spiral galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics on the VLT. More than 300 star forming regions - white spots in the image - are distributed along a ring of dust and gas in the image. At the centre of the ring there is a bright central source where the active galactic nucleus and its super-massive black hole are located. The image was constructed by stacking J- (blue), H- (green), and Ks-band (red) images. North is up and East is to the left. The field of view is 24 x 29 arcsec2, i.e. less than 0.03% the size of the full moon!
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0534a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso0534a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 1097
- Credits
- ESO/Prieto et al.
- Release Date
- 2005-10-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0534a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- NACO, NACO, NACO
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 41.57874, -30.27411
- Reference Dimension
- 1467.0, 1695.0
- Reference Pixel
- 765.02686339, 956.311828644
- Scale
- -4.70702e-06, 4.70702e-06
- Rotation
- -0.51087240143
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0534a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0534a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-07T16:28:24+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
