Galaxy NGC 1448 with Active Galactic Nucleus

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nustar_nustar170107a January 7th, 2017

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey

NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey in the optical range and NuSTAR in the X-ray range.

This galaxy contains an example of a supermassive black hole hidden by gas and dust. X-ray emissions from NGC 1448, as seen by NuSTAR and Chandra, suggests for the first time that, like IC 3639 in PIA21087, there must be a thick layer of gas and dust hiding the active black hole in this galaxy from our line of sight.

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech and managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. NuSTAR was developed in partnership with the Danish Technical University and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles, Virginia. NuSTAR's mission operations center is at UC Berkeley, and the official data archive is at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. ASI provides the mission's ground station and a mirror archive. JPL is managed by Caltech for NASA.

Provider: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

Image Source: https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar170107a

Curator: NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, Pasadena, CA

Image Use Policy: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 1448
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North is up
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ID
nustar170107a
Subject Category
Subject Name
NGC 1448
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey
Release Date
2017-01-07
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar170107a
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
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Equinox
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FITS Header
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Creator (Curator)
NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
URL
http://www.nustar.caltech.edu
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City
Pasadena
State/Province
CA
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Rights
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/
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Publisher ID
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Metadata Date
2018-06-21T00:23:57Z
Metadata Version
1.2
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