Centaurus A
eso_eso0903a January 28th, 2009
Credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)
Colour composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole. This is a composite of images obtained with three instruments, operating at very different wavelengths. The 870-micron submillimetre data, from LABOCA on APEX, are shown in orange. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in blue. Visible light data from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope located at La Silla, Chile, show the stars and the galaxy’s characteristic dust lane in close to "true colour". #L
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0903a/
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
- eso0903a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- Centaurus A, NGC 5128
- Credits
- ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)
- Release Date
- 2009-01-28T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0903a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Instrument
- WFI, LABOCA, WFI, WFI, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Millimeter, Optical, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- R, Submillimetre, V, B, -
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.36542, -43.019319
- Reference Dimension
- 2808.0, 2957.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1410.7273381, 1465.46656718
- Scale
- -0.00013481823, 0.00013481823
- Rotation
- -0.03674151123
- 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
- eso0903a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0903a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-03-03T14:33:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
