File:A hypnotic golden spiral (potw2211a).tif
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English: This image features the spectacular galaxy NGC 4254, also known as Messier 99. It’s an example of a grand design spiral galaxy, featuring strong, prominent, well-defined arms that wrap clearly around the galaxy’s centre.Messier 99 is located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Here it was imaged in exquisite detail by the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is a combination of observations conducted in different colours, or wavelengths, of light, showing clouds of gas ionised by newly born stars. Hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur gas are shown in red, blue and orange respectively.The image was taken as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, which is making high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies across all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to understand the life-cycle of star formation in galaxies. |
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Date | Taken in 2022 | ||
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Author | ESO/PHANGS | ||
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Image data location | 30,544 |
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Number of components | 3 |
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Horizontal resolution | 10 dpc |
Vertical resolution | 10 dpc |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 22.3 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 15:21, 8 June 2021 |
Color space | sRGB |