NGC 628, or Messier 74 (M74)

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wise_WISE2011-020b May 25th, 2011

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Some astronomers call the grand design spiral Messier 74 the "perfect spiral," for its exceptional symmetry. It is suspected to have a black hole at its center, with a mass equal to 10,000 suns. It is one of only a handful of known black holes with masses intermediate between the relatively smaller ones that form from collapsing stars and the supermassive black holes millions of times more massive than the sun. Supermassive black holes are more typically found at the centers of galaxies. Messier 74 is located between 24.5 and 36 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces, and is 100,000 light-years across.

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Messier 74 • M74 • NGC 628
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Distance Details Distance

Universescale2
33,000,000 light years
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 1h 36m 41.8s
DEC = 15° 47’ 0.5”
Orientation
North is up
Field of View
23.4 x 23.4 arcminutes
Constellation
Pisces

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue WISE Infrared (Near-IR) 3.4 µm
Cyan WISE Infrared (Near-IR) 4.6 µm
Green WISE Infrared (Mid-IR) 12.0 µm
Red WISE Infrared (Mid-IR) 22.0 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Blue
Cyan
Green
Red
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ID
WISE2011-020b
Subject Category
C.5.1.1.  
Subject Name
Messier 74, M74, NGC 628
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Release Date
2011-05-25
Lightyears
33,000,000
Redshift
0.002192
Reference Url
/image/wise/WISE2011-020b
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
WISE, WISE, WISE, WISE
Instrument
Color Assignment
Blue, Cyan, Green, Red
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR, Near-IR, Mid-IR, Mid-IR
Central Wavelength
3400, 4600, 12000, 22000
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
2000
Reference Value
24.174042, 15.783472
Reference Dimension
2042, 2042
Reference Pixel
1021.5, 1021.5
Scale
-1.90972219570500e-04, 1.90972219570500e-04
Rotation
0
Coordinate System Projection:
SIN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
URL
http://wise.astro.ucla.edu
Name
Email
outreach@ssl.berkeley.edu
Telephone
Address
7 Gauss Way
City
Berkeley
State/Province
CA
Postal Code
94720
Country
USA
Rights
Pulic Domain
Publisher
Publisher ID
wise
Resource ID
Resource URL
/image/wise/WISE2011-020b
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Metadata Date
2018-01-11T02:51:35Z
Metadata Version
1.2
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33,000,000 light years

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