The Fornax dwarf galaxy
eso_eso1007a February 17th, 2010
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
The Fornax dwarf galaxy is one of our Milky Way’s neighbouring dwarf galaxies. The Milky Way is, like all large galaxies, thought to have formed from smaller galaxies in the early days of the Universe. These small galaxies should also contain many very old stars, just as the Milky Way does, and a team of astronomers has now shown that this is indeed the case. This image was composed from data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1007a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1007a
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2010-02-17T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1007a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2007/21/aa6788-06/aa6788-06.html
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 445
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 39.997073, -34.44907
- Reference Dimension
- 5000.0, 5000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2356.05365663, 2784.78329367
- Scale
- -0.00027957635, 0.00027957635
- Rotation
- -1.34076828412
- 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
- eso1007a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1007a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-02-12T11:52:54+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
