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23 lip 14 10:33

The third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha).

Credit: ESO

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0936a/

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11 mar 11 17:02

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This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image — almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide here the full 800-million-pixel original image, which can be requested from Serge Brunier. The high resolution image provided here contains 18 million pixels.

Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/

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11 mar 11 16:52

eso0932a.jpg

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image — almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide here the full 800-million-pixel original image, which can be requested from Serge Brunier. The high resolution image provided here contains 18 million pixels.

Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/

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29 mar 10 12:27

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Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Visible-light comparison image from NOAO.
High-Resolution (8193x2410): JPEG
Credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF

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29 mar 10 12:17

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Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
MIPS three-channel image.
High-Resolution (2071x609): JPEG
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona)

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29 mar 10 12:13

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About the Object Object Name: Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Object Type: spiral galaxy
Position (J2000): RA: 00h42m44.3s Dec: +41d16m09s
Distance: 780,000 pc; 2.5 million light-years
Constellation: Andromeda
About the Data Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona)
Instrument: MIPS
Wavelength:
24 microns (pseudocolor); also 24 microns (blue), 70 microns (green), and 160 microns (red)
Exposure Date:
2004 August 25
Exposure Time:
100 sec/pixel (24 microns), 40 sec/pixel (70 microns), 9 sec/pixel (160 microns)
Image Scale: 2.8 x 0.8 degrees
Orientation: North is 53 deg CCW from up
Release Date: October 13, 2005

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29 mar 10 12:05