Nearby Galaxy NGC 300

Wise_wise2010-045b_1024

wise_WISE2010-045B December 14th, 2010

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

NGC 300 is a textbook spiral galaxy. In fact, it is such a good representation of a spiral galaxy that astronomers have studied it in great detail to learn about the structure of all spirals in general. Infrared images like this one from WISE show astronomers where areas of gas and warm dust are concentrated -- features that cannot be seen in visible light. This gas and dust is primarily found near star-forming regions in the spiral arms. There isnt a significant amount of gas and dust in the central core in this type of spiral galaxy, so it appears relatively dim. At about 39,000 light-years across, NGC 300 is only about 40 percent the size of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Provider: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Image Source: /image/wise/WISE2010-045B

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

Image Use Policy: Pulic Domain

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Image Details

Image Type
Object Name
NGC 300
Subject - Milky Way
Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Distance

Universescale2
6,000,000 light years

Position Details

Position
RA = 0h 54m 52.2s
DEC = -37° 40’ 54.2”
Field of View
45.8 x 45.8 arcminutes
Constellation
Sculptor

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
WISE2010-045B
Subject Category
B.5.1.1.  
Subject Name
NGC 300
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Release Date
2010-12-14
Lightyears
6,000,000
Redshift
Reference Url
/image/wise/WISE2010-045B
Type
Image Quality
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
Equinox
Reference Value
13.7173995, -37.6817331
Reference Dimension
2000.0, 2000.0
Reference Pixel
1001.0, 1001.0
Scale
0.000382018, 0.00038201766
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
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/WISE2010-045B
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2011-08-05
Metadata Version
1.2
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