ACS image of NGC 5866

Esahubble_opo0624a_1024

esahubble_opo0624a June 8th, 2006

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

This is a unique NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk of stars running parallel to the dust lane, and a transparent outer halo. Some faint, wispy trails of dust can be seen meandering away from the disk of the galaxy out into the bulge and inner halo of the galaxy. The outer halo is dotted with numerous gravitationally bound clusters of nearly a million stars each, known as globular clusters. Background galaxies that are millions to billions of light-years farther away than NGC 5866 are also seen through the halo.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0624a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 5866
Subject - General
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
Esahubble_opo0624a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 15h 6m 30.3s
DEC = 55° 45’ 36.7”
Orientation
North is 79.9° CCW
Field of View
2.7 x 3.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Draco

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (ACS) Optical (R) 625.0 nm
Green Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) 555.0 nm
Blue Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) 435.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
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ID
opo0624a
Subject Category
E.5.1.1  
Subject Name
NGC 5866
Credits
NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Release Date
2006-06-08T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0624a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Approximate distance in light years from NED
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, ACS, ACS
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
R, V, B
Central Wavelength
625, 555, 435
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
226.626415566, 55.7601914902
Reference Dimension
3190.0, 3756.0
Reference Pixel
1596.0, 1879.0
Scale
-1.38872520903e-05, 1.38872520903e-05
Rotation
79.9400000000005
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo0624a
Metadata Date
2006-06-05T10:49:59-04:00
Metadata Version
1.0
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