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Elliptical Galaxy M60
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive elliptical galaxy M60. The galaxy lies about 50 million light-years away inside the immense Virgo Cluster of 2,500 galaxies. A portion of the faint bluish spiral galaxy NGC 4647 can be seen in the upper right corner of this im...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-41-3425-image
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive elliptical galaxy M60. The galaxy lies about 50 million light-years away inside the immense Virgo Cluster of 2,500 galaxies. A portion of the faint bluish spiral galaxy NGC 4647 can be seen in the upper right corner of this image.
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| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | M60 |
| Object Description | Elliptical Galaxy |
| R.A. Position | 12h 43m 36.0s |
| Dec. Position | 11° 32' 6.99" |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Distance | Roughly 54 million light-years (16 megaparsecs) distant. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Data for this science result comes from the HST proposal: G. Fabbiano (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), T. Fragos and V. Kalogera (Northwestern University), D.-W. Kim and A. Zezas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Gallagher III (University of Wisconsin, Madison) , A. King (University of Leicester), J. Strader (Harvard University), and J. Brodie (University of California, Santa Cruz). The release image of M60 also includes data from proposals , PI: J. Tonry (University of Hawaii) and , PI: P. Cote (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory). The science team comprises: A. Seth (University of Utah), R. van den Bosch (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg), S. Mieske (ESO Chile), H. Baumgardt (University of Queensland), M. den Brok (University of Utah), J. Strader (Michigan State University), N. Neumayer (ESO Garching), I. Chilingarian (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Moscow State University), M. Hilker (ESO Garching), R. McDermid and L. Spitler (Australian Astronomical Observatory/Macquarie University, Sydney), J. Brodie (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Frank (Center of Astronomy/Heidelberg University), and J. Walsh (University of Texas, Austin). |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC and HST>WFPC2 |
| Filters | ACS/WFC: F475W (B) and F850LP (z); WFPC2: F555W (V) and F814W (I) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | The images are composites of separate exposures made by the ACS/WFC and WFPC2 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. Four filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges for the UVIS image. The colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: ACS/WFC F475W (B) + WFPC2 F555W (V) Green: F475W (B) + F555W (V) + F850LP (z) + F814W (I) Red: ACS/WFC F850LP (z) + WFPC2 F814W (I) |
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