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Detalles del Galaxy M82 activo

Details in the Hubble Space Telescope image of the active galaxy M82.Left: A portion of M82's bluish disk, largely composed of young, hot stars. Numerous bright blue-white star-forming clumps and wisps of darker, cooler dust and gas appear superimposed on the disk.Center: The cen...

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Jan 1, 2006
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
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hubblesite-images-2006-14-1884-image
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Details in the Hubble Space Telescope image of the active galaxy M82.

Left: A portion of M82's bluish disk, largely composed of young, hot stars. Numerous bright blue-white star-forming clumps and wisps of darker, cooler dust and gas appear superimposed on the disk.

Center: The central "inner-city" portion of the galaxy showing the combined light of countless stars and revealing numerous star-forming clumps, dark red clouds of gas and dust obscuring the light from the galaxy's core, and an overall field of fainter resolved and unresolved red (cooler) and blue (hotter) stars.

Right: Plumes of gas and dust amid a field of numerous faint, resolved stars blown from the central regions of M82 into the outer "suburbs."

Credits

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

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameM82, NGC 3034
Object DescriptionStarburst Galaxy
R.A. Position09h 55m 52.0s
Dec. Position69° 40' 48.99"
ConstellationUrsa Major
Distance12 million light-years (3.7 Megaparsecs)
About The Data
Data DescriptionThis image was created from HST data from proposal M. Mountain (STScI), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), P. Puxley (NSF), K. Noll, H. Bond, C. Christian, L. Frattare, F. Hamilton, Z. Levay, M. Mutchler, W. Januszewski, and T. Royle (Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA). Note: Announcement page with release information on High Level Science Products for M82 (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter) is available at the
InstrumentHST>ACS/WFC
Exposure DatesMarch 27-29, 2006, Exposure Time: 13.7 hours
FiltersF435W (B), F555W (V), F658N (H alpha), and F814W (I)
About The Image
Color InfoThis image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Three filters sample broad wavelength ranges, one isolates the light of hydrogen. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F435W (B) Green: F555W (V) Red-orange: F658N (H alpha) Red: F814W (I)

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