Distant Galaxies and Nearby Gas from Herschel

Nhsc_nhsc2010-005d_1024

nhsc_nhsc2010-005d May 6th, 2010

Credit: ESA/ATLAS Consortium

A picture of the first field observed in the H-ATLAS survey, made by combining the images made with the SPIRE camera at 250, 350 and 500 microns. The colours in the image are not real but have been used to represent the different infrared wavelengths. The faint blue whisps at the top of the image show dust in our own Galaxy and the bright object just above the centre of the picture is a 'Bok globule', a dense cloud of gas and dust, also in our Galaxy, in which a small star may be forming. The other objects in the picture are all galaxies, at distances up to 12 billion light-years. The image shows that the survey is detecting objects in our celestial backyard and also other, further ones that we are seeing as they were not long after the Big Bang.

Provider: Herschel Space Observatory

Image Source: https://www.herschel.caltech.edu/image/nhsc2010-005d

Curator: NASA Herschel Science Center, Pasadena, CA, USA

Image Use Policy: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Herschel (SPIRE) Infrared 250.0 µm
Green Herschel (SPIRE) Infrared 350.0 µm
Red Herschel (SPIRE) Infrared 500.0 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Blue
Green
Red
Nhsc_nhsc2010-005d_1280
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ID
nhsc2010-005d
Subject Category
D.6.1.1  
Subject Name
Credits
ESA/ATLAS Consortium
Release Date
2010-05-06
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.herschel.caltech.edu/image/nhsc2010-005d
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
Herschel, Herschel, Herschel
Instrument
SPIRE, SPIRE, SPIRE
Color Assignment
Blue, Green, Red
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
250000, 350000, 500000
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
NASA Herschel Science Center
URL
http://www.herschel.caltech.edu/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
1200 E. California Blvd.
City
Pasadena
State/Province
CA
Postal Code
91125
Country
USA
Rights
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/
Publisher
Publisher ID
nhsc
Resource ID
Metadata Date
2018-06-21T00:16:10Z
Metadata Version
1.2
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