Anatomy of a bird

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eso_eso0755b December 21st, 2007

Credit: ESO

Image taken with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in the K-band. Also indicated are the different parts of the 'Bird'. There is a barred spiral galaxy at the heart of the Bird, and a strongly disturbed massive galaxy just south of it, while the head of the Bird consists of an irregular galaxy with very active star formation. The wings span a region in space of about 100,000 light-years, as much as our own Milky Way. North is up and East is to the left. The image covers about 25 x 25 arcsec.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0755b/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
ESO 593-IG 008 • The Bird
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 19h 14m 31.1s
DEC = -21° 19’ 9.4”
Orientation
North is 2.3° CCW
Field of View
0.7 x 0.6 arcminutes
Constellation
Sagittarius

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor VLT (NACO) Infrared -
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ID
eso0755b
Subject Category
C.5.1.7  
Subject Name
ESO 593-IG 008, The Bird
Credits
ESO
Release Date
2007-12-21T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0755b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Very Large Telescope
Instrument
NACO
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
288.629491, -21.319267
Reference Dimension
1251.0, 1071.0
Reference Pixel
532.17071114, 513.476032226
Scale
-9.2984e-06, 9.2984e-06
Rotation
2.28257991727
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso0755b
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0755b.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2009-01-26T15:03:47+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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