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Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope
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Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope
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Sombrero Galaxy
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M104
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What is Hubble Heritage?
A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site.
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General_Information
What is Hubble Heritage?
A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site.
Back to top [ #top ]
General Information
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Sombrero Galaxy, M104, NGC 4594 Object Description: Edge-on Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 12h 39m 59s.43 Dec. -11° 37' 23".0 Constellation: Virgo Distance: 28 million light-years (9 megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is roughly 10 arcminutes (82,000 light-years or 25,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: TThis image was created from data from HST program 9714: K. Noll, H. Bond, C. Christian, L. Frattare, F. Hamilton, Z. Levay, and T. Royle (STScI). Instrument: ACS/WFC Exposure Date(s): May - June 2003 Exposure Time: 10.2 hours Filters: F435W("B"), F555W("V"), F625W("r") About the Image Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Release Date: October 2, 2003 Orientation: The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104) [ http://imgsrc.hubbl…]
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Sombrero Galaxy, M104, NGC 4594 Object Description: Edge-on Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 12h 39m 59s.43 Dec. -11° 37' 23".0 Constellation: Virgo Distance: 28 million light-years (9 megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is roughly 10 arcminutes (82,000 light-years or 25,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: TThis image was created from data from HST program 9714: K. Noll, H. Bond, C. Christian, L. Frattare, F. Hamilton, Z. Levay, and T. Royle (STScI). Instrument: ACS/WFC Exposure Date(s): May - June 2003 Exposure Time: 10.2 hours Filters: F435W("B"), F555W("V"), F625W("r") About the Image Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Release Date: October 2, 2003 Orientation: The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104) [ http://imgsrc.hubbl…] Fast Facts
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*Release Date*:October 2, 2003 12:00 AM (EDT)
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*Title*:Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-2003-28b
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*Description*:
NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes joined forces to create this striking composite image of one of the most popular sights in the universe. Messier 104 is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because in visible light, it resembles the broad-brimmed Mexican hat. However, in Spitzer's striking infrared view, the galaxy looks more like a "bull's eye."
In Hubble's visible light image (lower left panel), only the near rim of dust can be clearly seen in silhouette. Recent observations using Spitzer's infrared array camera (lower right panel) uncovered the bright, smooth ring of dust circling the galaxy, seen in red. Spitzer's infrared view of the starlight, piercing through the obscuring dust, is easily seen, along with the bulge of stars and an otherwise hidden disk of stars within the dust ring.
Spitzer's full view shows the disk is warped, which is often the result of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy, and clumpy areas spotted in the far edges of the ring indicate young star-forming regions.
The Sombrero galaxy is located some 28 million light-years away. Viewed from Earth, it is just six degrees south of its equatorial plane. Spitzer detected infrared emission not only from the ring, but from the center of the galaxy too, where there is a huge black hole, believed to be a billion times more massive than our Sun.
The Spitzer picture is composed of four images taken at 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), 5.8 (orange), and 8.0 (red) microns. The contribution from starlight (measured at 3.6 microns) has been subtracted from the 5.8 and 8-micron images to enhance the visibility of the dust features.
The Hubble Heritage Team took these observations in May-June 2003 with the space telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images were taken in three filters (red, green, and blue) to yield a natural-color image. The team took six pictures of the galaxy and then stitched them together to create the final composite image. This magnificent galaxy has a diameter that is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full Moon.
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*Description*:
NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes joined forces to create this striking composite image of one of the most popular sights in the universe. Messier 104 is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because in visible light, it resembles the broad-brimmed Mexican hat. However, in Spitzer's striking infrared view, the galaxy looks more like a "bull's eye."
In Hubble's visible light image (lower left panel), only the near rim of dust can be clearly seen in silhouette. Recent observations using Spitzer's infrared array camera (lower right panel) uncovered the bright, smooth ring of dust circling the galaxy, seen in red. Spitzer's infrared view of the starlight, piercing through the obscuring dust, is easily seen, along with the bulge of stars and an otherwise hidden disk of stars within the dust ring.
Spitzer's full view shows the disk is warped, which is often the result of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy, and clumpy areas spotted in the far edges of the ring indicate young star-forming regions.
The Sombrero galaxy is located some 28 million light-years away. Viewed from Earth, it is just six degrees south of its equatorial plane. Spitzer detected infrared emission not only from the ring, but from the center of the galaxy too, where there is a huge black hole, believed to be a billion times more massive than our Sun.
The Spitzer picture is composed of four images taken at 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), 5.8 (orange), and 8.0 (red) microns. The contribution from starlight (measured at 3.6 microns) has been subtracted from the 5.8 and 8-micron images to enhance the visibility of the dust features.
The Hubble Heritage Team took these observations in May-June 2003 with the space telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images were taken in three filters (red, green, and blue) to yield a natural-color image. The team took six pictures of the galaxy and then stitched them together to create the final composite image. This magnificent galaxy has a diameter that is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full Moon.
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