Chandra's image highlights the energetic central regions of the two interacting galaxies that are collectively called the Whirlpool Galaxy. A large number of point-like X-ray sources due to black holes and neutron stars can also be seen. Extending to the north and south of the central region of the larger galaxy, NGC 5194, are clouds of multimillion degree gas that are thought to be heated by high-velocity jets produced near a supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the galaxy. (Credit:...
Topics: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- NGC 5194, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/more.html
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Dec 22, 2010
12/10
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Take a tour of the Whirlpool galaxy, with views from early astronomers and NASA space telescopes.
Topic: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=104
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ])
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*Description*: A detail of the Eagle Nebula (M16) showing a portion of a pillar of gas and dust. Denser clouds are silhouetted against glowing gas and material reflecting light from nearby stars. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6...
Topics: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611, IC 4703, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/g/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], R. Thompson (CSC/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/3/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/4/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/5/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/6/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/7/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/still/8/ ]
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*Description*:> In its 15 years of viewing the sky, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken more than 700,000 exposures and probed more than 22,000 celestial targets as represented by the different colored dots in this map of the sky. All data from April 1990 through March 2005 are represented here. Solar system objects are shown as yellow dots; stars are blue; star clusters are orange; nebulae are green; galaxies are red; galaxy clusters are pink; and other targets such as the Hubble Ultra...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/e/
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Sep 21, 2009
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/k/
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/s/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/q/
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC-Caltech)
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This animation transitions from the more familiar visible light image of the "Whirlpool Galaxy" to the dramatic new view captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Revealed are strange structures bridging the gaps between the dust-rich spiral arms, and tracing the dust, gas and stellar populations in both the bright spiral galaxy and its companion. The visible light image comes from the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1m telescope, and is a four-color composite showing light from...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2004-19v1
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Aug 19, 2009
08/09
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Take a tour of the Whirlpool galaxy, with views from early astronomers and NASA space telescopes.
Topics: The latest video features from www.nasa.gov, NASATV, and more., Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup-200900402.html
This image of M51 was taken with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ. M51 consists of the large spiral galaxy NGC 5194 and its smaller companion NGC 5195. M51 is about 30 million light years away and over 65,000 light-years in diameter. Scale: Image is 8.8 arcmin across by 11 arcmin. (Credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF/T.A.Rector & M.Ramirez)
Topics: Where -- M51, Where -- NGC 5194, Where -- NGC 5195, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/more.html
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*Photo Credit:* T.A.Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage, NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/NSF)
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*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This...
Topics: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611, IC 4703, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/x/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/n/
This infrared image comes from the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) which operated from 1995-1998. Mid-infrared light is well-suited to studying star formation and tracing dust in spiral galaxies. This image shows the galaxy cores and spiral arms, and also nicely illustrates the knots of star formation occurring in the arms of M51. Scale: Image is 8.8 arcmin across by 11 arcmin. (Credit: ESA/ISO, CAM, M.Sauvage et al.)
Topics: What -- ISO, Where -- M51, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/more.html
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Take a thrill ride through 15 years of Hubble images, starting with Hubble's first picture and ending with its anniversary image of the Whirlpool Galaxy. In less than three minutes, 800 Hubble images flash over the screen, sometimes as fast as 60 pictures per second.
Topics: What -- FAST, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/movie_theater/revelations/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Photo Credit:* Akira Fujii
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*Description*: The location of the Eagle Nebula (M16) is indicated on this wide view of the sky in the direction of the center of our Galaxy. It shows numerous dense star clouds, glowing gas and dark dust patches of the Milky Way. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance:...
Topics: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611, IC 4703, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/h/
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team
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This beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1566, located approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado was captured by the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) Legacy Project using the telescope's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). The faint blue light is coming from mature stars, while the "glowing" red spiral arms indicate active star formation and dust emission. Much of the active star formation is seen in the two symmetric arms that are reminiscent of other...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Dorado, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), Where -- NGC 1, Where...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=sig05-013
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and R. Thompson (CSC/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ])
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*Description*: In its 15 years of viewing the sky, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken more than 700,000 exposures and probed more than 22,000 celestial targets as represented by the different colored dots in this map of the sky. All data from April 1990 through March 2005 are represented here. Solar system objects are shown as yellow dots; stars are blue; star clusters are orange; nebulae are green; galaxies are red; galaxy clusters are pink; and other targets such as the Hubble Ultra Deep...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/j/
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*Credit:* [Whirlpool Galaxy] - NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], S. Beckwith (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]) [Eagle Nebula] - NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ])
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*Description*: During the 15 years NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos; images that have awed, astounded and even confounded astronomers and the public. NASA released new views today of two of the most well-known objects Hubble has ever observed: the Whirlpool Galaxy (spiral galaxy M51) [left] and the Eagle Nebula [right]. These new images are among the largest and sharpest Hubble has ever taken. They were made with Hubble's...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Earth, What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/y/
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This image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Seen in near-infrared light, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure. This new image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Regan and B. Whitmore...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- M51, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/510697main_hs-2011-03-b-full_jpg_full.jpg
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgement: N. Scoville (Caltech) and T. Rector (NOAO)
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Scientists are seeing unprecedented detail of the spiral arms and dust clouds in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy, thanks to a new Hubble Space Telescope image, available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/wfpc/wfpc.html. The image uses data collected January 15 and 24, 1995, and July 21, 1999, by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by JPL. Using the image, a research group led by Dr. Nick Scoville of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, clearly defined the...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04230
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/l/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/m/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/d/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/d/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/d/still/3/ ]
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*Description*:> Tilting up on the Eagle Nebula the camera reveals the fine details captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys of a monolithic pillar of gas and dust. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions:...
Topics: What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/d/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/w/
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/t/
Hubble's image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, shows the majestic spiral arms that are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. This galaxy, also called NGC 5194, is having a close encounter with a nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, just off the upper edge of this image. The companion's gravitational influence is triggering star formation in the Whirlpool, as seen by the numerous clusters of bright, young stars (red). (Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith & Hubble Heritage...
Topics: Where -- M51, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- NGC 5194, Where -- NGC 5195
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/more.html
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Dec 2, 2009
12/09
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The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp 'eye' of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Hydra, What -- Earth, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1513.html
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Sep 22, 2009
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*Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]) *Acknowledgment:* N. Scoville (Caltech) and T. Rector (NOAO)
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*Description*: New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are helping researchers view in unprecedented detail the spiral arms and dust clouds of a nearby galaxy, which are the birth sites of massive and luminous stars. The Whirlpool galaxy, M51, has been one of the most photogenic galaxies in amateur and professional astronomy. Easily photographed and viewed by smaller telescopes, this celestial beauty is studied extensively in a range of wavelengths by large ground- and space-based...
Topics: M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Wide Field Planetary...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/10/image/a/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/o/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/b/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/b/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/b/still/3/ ]
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*Description*:> A zoom into the Eagle Nebula starting with images made from Fuji, NOAO and into the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys image revealing intricate details of the star-forming cloud of dust and glowing gas. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31...
Topics: What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/b/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/u/
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Dec 27, 2010
12/10
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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, the mission team has put together this image showing just a sample of the millions of galaxies that have been imaged by WISE during its survey of the entire sky. NGC 300 is seen in the image in the upper left panel. This is a textbook spiral galaxy. In fact, it is such a good representation of a spiral galaxy that astronomers have studied it in great detail to learn about the structure of all...
Topics: What -- Explorer, Where -- M60, Where -- NGC 5194, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- NGC 5195,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/506350main_pia13450-full_full.jpg
The Whirlpool galaxy, M51, has been studied extensively in a range of wavelengths, by large ground- and space-based observatories. The Hubble composite image of the inner region shows visible starlight as well as light from the emission of glowing hydrogen, which is associated with the most luminous young stars in the spiral arms. Scale: Image is 3.6 arcmin across by 4.4 arcmin. (Credit: NASA/AURA/STScI/Hubble Heritage Team)
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/more.html
This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51) was taken by GALEX on June 19th and 20th 2003. This picture is a combination of GALEX images taken with the FUV (colored blue) and NUV detectors (colored red). M51 has a close companion galaxy to the North that is only just visible in the NUV detector and so looks faint and red in this image. This indicates that there is very little star formation occurring in the companion galaxy. The red stars in this image are foreground stars in our own Milky...
Topics: What -- GALEX, Where -- M51, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/more.html
This X-ray image of M51 was observed on June 20, 2000 for 4 hours with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Chandra observations of this spiral galaxy and 3 other nearby galaxies have revealed a possible new class of X-ray sources. These mysterious X-ray sources, marked with green diamonds in the version on the left, are called "quasisoft" sources because they have a temperature in the range of one to four million degrees Celsius. Color Code:
Topics: What -- Spectrometer, Where -- M51, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/m101/more.html
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R.Kilgard et al; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Univ. of AZ/R. Kennicutt
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Color code: X-ray (purple); Ultraviolet (blue); Optical (green); Infrared (red)
Topics: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/index.html
Whirlpool Galaxy with Scale Bar
Topic: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/more.html
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*Photo Credit:* T.A.Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage, NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/NSF)
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*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. It shows the areas seen in greater detail with Hubble's Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1995 and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2005. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000):...
Topics: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611, IC 4703, What -- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, What -- Camera 2, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/i/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/c/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/c/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/c/still/3/ ]
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*Description*:> A zoom pulling out from the center of the Whirlpool Galaxy revealing the fine details captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys across the spiral arms, dust lanes and galaxy companion. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million...
Topics: What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/c/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/a/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/a/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/a/still/3/ ]
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*Description*:> A pan of the Whirlpool Galaxy that reveals the fine details captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys across the spiral arms, dust lanes, and galaxy companion. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs)...
Topics: What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/a/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and L. Barranger (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) Selected still images from this video: (click to enlarge): [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/f/still/1/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/f/still/2/ ] [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/f/still/3/ ] What is HubbleMinute? The latest news with style ... HubbleMinute is a brief video news report that combines music, narrative, and animations to convey the latest Hubble discovery to the public.
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*Description*:> 15th anniversary Hubble Minute on the top science discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. Images cover planets, comets, stars, galaxies and almost back to the beginning of time. The story leads up to Hubble's largest images ever revealed. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8"...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- COMETS, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/video/f/
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/r/
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, NGC 5194/5 Object Description: Face-on Spiral Galaxy with Companion Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.37s Dec. +47° 11' 40.8" Constellation: Canes Venatici Distance: About 31 million light-years (9.6 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 9.6 arcminutes (87,000 light-years or 27,000 parsecs) wide. About the Data Note: High level science products (combined and mosaiced fits files for each filter)...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Canes Venatici, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/v/
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured these infrared images of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," revealing strange structures bridging the gaps between the dust-rich spiral arms, and tracing the dust, gas and stellar populations in both the bright spiral galaxy and its companion. The Spitzer image is a four-color composite of invisible light, showing emissions from wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (green), 5.8 microns (orange) and 8.0 microns (red). These wavelengths are...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Visible Light, What -- Constellation, What -- Canes...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2004-19a
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Take a tour of the Whirlpool galaxy, with views from early astronomers and NASA space telescopes.
Topic: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy
Source: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m4v/www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/whatsup/whatsup20090402/whatsup20090402-1280-i.m4v
Chandra's X-ray image (see #1 above) highlights the energetic central regions of the two interacting galaxies that are collectively called the Whirlpool Galaxy. A large number of point-like X-ray sources due to black holes and neutron stars can be seen. Extending to the north and south of the bright nucleus are clouds of multimilliondegree gas. The similarity of these features with ones observed at radio wavelengths, such as in the Very Large Array image shown here, suggests that the gas is...
Topics: What -- Very Large Array, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/more.html
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*Credit:* H. Ford (JHU/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), the Faint Object Spectrograph IDT, and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: (four-frame comparison) Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the core of the giant spiral galaxy M51. These images, taken at different wavelengths of light, reveal complex structure and detail in the galaxy's core, which is thought to hide a massive black hole. [upper left] - A ground telescopic image of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken with Kitt Peak National Observatory's 4-meter telescope. M51 is spectacular because it is one of the nearest and brightest galaxies...
Topics: M51, Whirlpool Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Earth, What -- Visible Light,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1992/17/image/b/
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*Credit:* Robert P. Kirshner/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has returned the most detailed images ever of supernova 1994I which is in the "Whirlpool Galaxy" (M51) located 20 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The view in this picture encompasses the inner region of the galaxy's grand spiral disk, which extends all the way to the bright nucleus. An arrow points to the location of the supernova, which lies approximately 2,000 light-years from the nucleus. The supernova...
Topics: M51, NGC 5194, SN 1994I, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Canes...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1994/20/image/a/
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*Credit:* Nino Panagia (Space Telescope Science Institute and European Space Agency) and NASA
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*Description*: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a view of several star generations in the central region of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), a spiral region 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy's massive center, the bright ball of light in the center of the photograph, is about 80 light-years across and has a brightness of about 100 million suns. Astronomers estimate that it is about 400 million years old and has a mass...
Topics: M51, Whirlpool Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Earth, What -- Constellation,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/17/image/a/
infrared image from Spitzer also reveals stars and the glow from clouds of interstellar dust. The dust consists mainly of a variety of carbon-based organic molecules. The Spitzer image is a four-color composite of invisible light, showing emissions from wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (green), 5.8 microns (orange) and 8.0 microns (red). These wavelengths are roughly 10 times longer than those seen by the human eye. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Univ. of AZ/R. Kennicutt)
Topics: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m51/more.html
