Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, or Messier 83 (M83)

Wise_wise2011-020d_1024

wise_WISE2011-020d May 25th, 2011

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

At about 55,500 light-years across, M83 is s a bit more than half the size of our Milky Way Galaxy, but it has a similar overall structure. Like the Milky Way, most of M83's stars, dust, and gas lie in a thin disk decorated with grand spiral arms. This galaxy is classified as a barred spiral because, in addition to a central bulge of stars, it has a central bar-shaped region of stars. It is 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra.

Provider: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Image Source: /image/wise/WISE2011-020d

Curator: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Berkeley, CA, USA

Image Use Policy: Pulic Domain

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Messier 83 M83 NGC 5236
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
Galaxy > Type > Barred

Distance

Universescale2
13,000,000 light years
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 13h 37m 0.9s
DEC = -29° 51’ 55.5”
Orientation
North is up
Field of View
25.2 x 25.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Hydra

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
WISE2011-020d
Subject Category
C.5.1.1.   C.5.1.2.  
Subject Name
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 83, M83, NGC 5236
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Release Date
2011-05-25
Lightyears
13,000,000
Redshift
0.001711
Reference Url
/image/wise/WISE2011-020d
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
204.253958, -29.865417
Reference Dimension
2199, 2199
Reference Pixel
1100, 1100
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/WISE2011-020d
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2018-01-11T02:51:38Z
Metadata Version
1.2
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13,000,000 light years

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