Wide Field Imager view of part of the bulge of the Milky Way
eso_eso1339f September 12th, 2013
Credit: ESO/M. Zoccali
This star-filled picture was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. It shows a patch of sky in the direction of the centre of the Milky Way and includes many thousands of stars that form part of the Milky Way bulge. Very careful comparisons of such images, taken eleven years apart, have been used to measure the motions of bulge stars and help unravel the mysteries of the central parts of the galaxy.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1339f/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1339f
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.1
- Subject Name
- Milky Way Galactic Bulge
- Credits
- ESO/M. Zoccali
- Release Date
- 2013-09-12T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1339f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 4094.0, 2015.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1339f
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1339f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-22T14:21:43.762155
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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