Fornax in Blue
nrao_NRAO_Gallery011
Credit: (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Radio waves are invisible to our eyes, therefore, they do not arrive in any \"color\" that we\'ve ever known. When we take our data and plot it, our artists can assign any color they please to the results. In this image of the famous Fornax radio galaxy, our artist tried a blue coloring for the enormous lobes of gas this galaxy\'s black hole sprays out.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: /image/nrao/NRAO_Gallery011
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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- ID
- NRAO_Gallery011
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.3
- Subject Name
- Fornax A, NGC 1316
- Credits
- (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 62.0E+6
- Redshift
- 62.0E+6
- Reference Url
- /image/nrao/NRAO_Gallery011
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- UK Schmidt - Doubl, UK Schmidt - Doubl, UK Schmidt - Doubl, VLA
- Instrument
- Photographic Plate, Photographic Plate, Photographic Plate, -
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Radio
- Bandpass
- I, I, I, L
- Central Wavelength
- 610, 715, 395, 2.1E+08
- Start Time
- 1996-10-09T15:52:00, 1995-12-29T11:18:00, 1980-10-05T15:37, -
- Integration Time
- 3600, 4200, 3900, -
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 50.67403800000, -37.20831600000
- Reference Dimension
- 4096, 4096
- Reference Pixel
- 2044.66067974618, 2052.06470255229
- Scale
- -0.00024428576, 0.00024428576
- Rotation
- 0.07146481850
- 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/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- /image/nrao/NRAO_Gallery011
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-11-27T09:37:03-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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