Hercules A
nrao_NRAO_Gallery058
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Very Large Array sees fountains of hot gas erupting from a beastly black hole in the heart of a large galaxy known to radio astronomers as Hercules A. For millions of trillions of miles, these jets shoot through space, finally slowing when they reach ancient gaseous hiccups left behind by this galaxys earliest days of star-forming fury.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/hercules-a/
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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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- NRAO_Gallery058
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- Hercules A, 3C 348
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 2.1E+09
- Redshift
- 2.1E+09
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/hercules-a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLA, VLA, VLA, HST, HST
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, -, Grayscale
- Band
- Radio, Radio, Radio, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- C, C, X, I, -
- Central Wavelength
- 6.9305308787E+07, 5.09791628859E+07, 3.56E+07, -, -
- Start Time
- 2010-09-02, 2010-09-02, 2010-09-02, 2012-10-08, 2012-10-08
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 252.78964944833, 4.99807990833
- Reference Dimension
- 1280, 909
- Reference Pixel
- 600.96674831577, 628.08436346820
- Scale
- -4.355009000013e-5, 4.355009000013e-5
- Rotation
- -35.45571474685
- 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
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/hercA_2012_large.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-12T19:06:26+00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
