NGC 3596 Is More than Meets the Eye

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Credit: T. Burchell and B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) from data provided by A. C. Boley and L. van Zee, Indiana University; D. Schade and S. Côté, Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics

This gorgeous face-on spiral galaxy is called NGC 3596. This image combines Hydrogen-alpha emission (red), visible light in the R-band (white), and neutral hydrogen 21cm gas emission (blue) from the Very Large Array (VLA). What you see when you combine the invisible waves with visible ones is the enormous shroud of gas surrounding this galaxy. Mature stars twinkle in white, new stars shine their nursery clouds in reds, and the gas for future stars glows in blue.

Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/ngc-3596-is-more-than-meets-the-eye/

Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 3596
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Distance

Universescale2
50,000,000 light years
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 11h 15m 6.2s
DEC = 14° 47’ 13.6”
Orientation
North is 0.2° CW
Field of View
5.5 x 5.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Leo

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red CFHT Infrared (H alpha) 656.28 nm
Grayscale CFHT Optical (R) -
Blue VLA Radio (L) 210.0 mm
Spectrum_xray2w
Red
Blue
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ID
NRAO_Gallery026
Subject Category
C.5.1.1  
Subject Name
NGC 3596
Credits
T. Burchell and B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) from data provided by A. C. Boley and L. van Zee, Indiana University; D. Schade and S. Côté, Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics
Release Date
Lightyears
5.0E+07
Redshift
5.0E+07
Reference Url
https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/ngc-3596-is-more-than-meets-the-eye/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
CFHT, CFHT, VLA
Instrument
Color Assignment
Red, Grayscale, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical, Radio
Bandpass
H alpha, R, L
Central Wavelength
656.28, -, 2.1E+08
Start Time
-, -, 1999-01-04
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
2000.0
Reference Value
168.77592500000, 14.78712500000
Reference Dimension
2100, 2100
Reference Pixel
989.70671413663, 1030.05651754811
Scale
-0.00004355230, 0.00004355230
Rotation
-0.20547605747
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
Email
outreach@nrao.edu
Telephone
Address
520 Edgemont Road
City
Charlottesville
State/Province
Virginia
Publisher
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Publisher ID
nrao
Resource ID
Metadata Date
2018-04-12T19:07:12+00:00
Metadata Version
1.2
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Universescalefull
50,000,000 light years

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