Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
M82, NGC 3034 |
| Object Description: |
Starburst Galaxy |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 09h 55m 52s
Dec. +69° 40' 49" |
| Constellation: |
Ursa Major |
| Distance: |
12 million light-years (3.7 Megaparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughly 7.9 arcminutes (28,000 light-years or 8,500 parsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Note: |
Announcement page with release information on High Level Science Products for M82 (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter) is available at: http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/m82/ |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from proposal 10776 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). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
March 27-29, 2006 |
| Exposure Time: |
13.7 hours |
| Filters: |
F435W(B), F555W(V), F658N (H alpha), F814W(I) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
April 24, 2006 |
| Color |
This 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:
F658N (Hydrogen-alpha) red/orange
F814W (I) red
F555W (V) green
F435W (B) blue |
| Orientation: |
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