The star cluster Terzan 5
eso_eso0945a November 25th, 2009
Credit: ESO/F. Ferraro
Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy's central parts (the "bulge") with an amazing amount of detail, a team of astronomers has revealed an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as Terzan 5. Never observed anywhere in the bulge before, this peculiar cocktail of stars suggests that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way during its very early days. This near-infrared image was obtained with the Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. Observations in two bands (J and K) were combined. The field of view is 40 arcseconds across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0945a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0945a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4
- Subject Name
- Terzan 5
- Credits
- ESO/F. Ferraro
- Release Date
- 2009-11-25T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0945a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from the Max-Planck-Institute. (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/SPIFFI/preprints/first_result_an1.pdf)
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD), ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD), ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD)
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, Pseudogreen (J+K), J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 267.018475384, -24.7800669367
- Reference Dimension
- 1355.0, 1373.0
- Reference Pixel
- 569.18706178, 712.369306749
- Scale
- -7.76028e-06, 7.76028e-06
- Rotation
- -179.83937530639
- 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
- eso0945a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0945a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-11-24T15:20:02+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
