The Virgo Cluster
eso_eso0919c May 20th, 2009
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Image of the Virgo cluster of galaxies taken with the Palomar Observatory 48-inch Schmidt telescope as part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 is seen in the centre, while Messier 84 and 86 are the two bright galaxies forming part of the small group on the centre right of the image. New observations obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have shown that the halo of stars around Messier 87 has been truncated, possibly because of some interaction with Messier 84. The observations also reveal that Messier 87 and 86 are moving towards each other.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0919c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0919c
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Virgo Cluster
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2009-05-20T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0919c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/655/1/144/
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.633604, 12.723296
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1274.0
- Reference Pixel
- 851.62217908, 690.507782258
- Scale
- -0.00497541023, 0.00497541023
- Rotation
- 1.13672550868
- 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
- eso0919c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0919c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-05-20T14:14:20+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
