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Multiwavelength View of NGC 1300 (ALMA, VLT)

Face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. It has a very bright white core, and two very fat pink, orange, and blue spiral arms that start at the core. The first wraps to the right, top, and all the way across to the left. The second starts at the core and wraps all the way to the left, bottom, and then all the way across to the right.

This image of spiral galaxy NGC 1300 combines multiple observations to map stellar populations and gas. Radio light observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), represented in yellow, highlights the clouds of cold molecular gas that provide the raw material from which stars form. Data from the Very Large Telescope’s Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument is represented in red and magenta, capturing the impact of young, massive stars on their surrounding gas. Visible light captured by the Hubble Space Telescope highlights dust lanes in gold and very young, hot stars in blue. High-resolution infrared images from the Webb Space Telescope will help researchers identify where stars are forming behind dust and study the earliest stages of star formation in this galaxy.

About the Object

R.A. Position
R.A. PositionRight ascension – analogous to longitude – is one component of an object's position.
03:19:40.79
Dec. Position
Dec. PositionDeclination – analogous to latitude – is one component of an object's position.
-19:24:39.99
Constellation
ConstellationOne of 88 recognized regions of the celestial sphere in which the object appears.
Eridanus
Distance
DistanceThe physical distance from Earth to the astronomical object. Distances within our solar system are usually measured in Astronomical Units (AU). Distances between stars are usually measured in light-years. Interstellar distances can also be measured in parsecs.
About 69 million light-years.
Dimensions
DimensionsThe physical size of the object or the apparent angle it subtends on the sky.
This image is 2.9 arcminutes across (about 59,000 light-years).

About the Data

Data Description
Data DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.
The Hubble portion of this image was created from HST data from proposal: 10324 (K. Noll)
Instrument
InstrumentThe science instrument used to produce the data.
HST>ACS/WFC VLT>MUSE ALMA
Exposure Dates
Exposure DatesThe date(s) that the telescope made its observations and the total exposure time.
September 2004
Filters
FiltersThe camera filters that were used in the science observations.
HST/WFC3> F435W, F555W; F658N; F814W VLT/MUSE> F475W, F625W; F656N; F775W ALMA> 1.2 cm

Object Name
Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
NGC 1300
Object Description
Object DescriptionThe type of astronomical object.
Barred spiral galaxy
Release Date
January 19, 2022
Science Release
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Credit
NASA, ESA, ESO-Chile, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan

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These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Several filters were used to sample narrow and wide wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: HST/WFC3> Blue: F435W Green: F555W Red: F658N+F814W VLT/MUSE> Blue: F475W Green: F625W Red: F656N+F775W ALMA> Yellow

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