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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1309
CreditsNASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Riess (JHU/STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-32-3393-image
Credits
NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Riess (JHU/STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | NGC 1309 |
| Object Description | Supernova in Spiral Galaxy |
| R.A. Position | 03h 22m 5.27s |
| Dec. Position | -15° 23' 49.33" |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Distance | 100 million light-years (30 Megaparsecs) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Hubble data for this release were obtained from the following proposals: , , , and 12880: A. Riess (JHU/STScI) et al. : K. Noll (NASA/GSFC) et al. : S. Jha (Rutgers University) et al. The science team comprises: C. McCully and S. Jha (Rutgers University), R. Foley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), L. Bildsten (University of California, Santa Barbara/ Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) W.-f. Fong and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA), G. Marion (University of Texas, Austin and Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA), A. Riess (JHU/STScI) and M. Stritzinger (Aarhus University, Denmark). |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Dates | 2005 - 2006 |
| Filters | F435W (B) F555W (V), and F814W (I) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the ACS/WFC instrument. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image as follows: Blue: F435W (B) Green: F555W (V) Red: F814W (I) |
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