ALMA Sees Super Stellar Nurseries at Heart of Sculptor Galaxy
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Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); A. Leroy; STScI/NASA, ST-ECF/ESA, CADC/NRC/CSA
What is the recipe for starburst? Astronomers studied NGC 253 with ALMA to find out. These new ALMA data reveal a diffuse envelope of carbon monoxide gas (shown in red), which surrounds stellar nurseries -- regions of active star formation (in yellow). By dissecting these regions with ALMA, astronomers are uncovering clues to the processes and conditions that drive furious star formation. The ALMA data are superimposed on a Hubble image that covers part of the same region.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/alma-sees-super-stellar-nurseries-at-heart-of-sculptor-galaxy/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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Color Mapping
- ID
- NRAO_Gallery007
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- Sculptor Galaxy
- Credits
- B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); A. Leroy; STScI/NASA, ST-ECF/ESA, CADC/NRC/CSA
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 11.7E+06
- Redshift
- 11.7E+06
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/alma-sees-super-stellar-nurseries-at-heart-of-sculptor-galaxy/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ALMA, ALMA, HST, HST, HST
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Cyan, Purple, Blue
- Band
- Millimeter, Millimeter, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- ALMA Band 3 CO, ALMA Band 3 CO, R, G, B
- Central Wavelength
- 2.6E+06, 3.4E+06, 814, 606, 475
- Start Time
- 2012-01-09T21:28:03.216000, 2012-07-02T09:15:31.488000, 2008-01-16T08:40:57, 2008-01-16T08:40:01, 2008-01-16T08:40:57
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 11.90173565000, -25.27973380000
- Reference Dimension
- 2166, 2129
- Reference Pixel
- 200.59172788653, 1677.77877752461
- Scale
- -0.00001387416, 0.00001387416
- Rotation
- -0.07746135478
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/NGC253ALMA_HST.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-12T19:14:35+00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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