File:HAWK-I view of the Milky Way's central region.jpg
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DescriptionHAWK-I view of the Milky Way's central region.jpg |
English: Taken with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert, this stunning image shows the Milky Way's central region with an angular resolution of 0.2 arcseconds. This means the level of detail picked up by HAWK-I is roughly equivalent to seeing a football (soccer ball) in Zurich from Munich, where ESO's headquarters are located.
The image combines observations in three different wavelength bands. The team used the broadband filters J (centred at 1250 nanometres, in blue), H (centred at 1635 nanometres, in green), and Ks (centred at 2150 nanometres, in red), to cover the near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. By observing in this range of wavelengths, HAWK-I can peer through the dust, allowing it to see certain stars in the central region of our galaxy that would otherwise be hidden. |
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Source | https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1920a/ |
Author | ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. |
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Credit/Provider | ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. |
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Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 17:00, 16 December 2019 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 11:59, 19 November 2019 |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:44, 11 November 2019 |
Date metadata was last modified | 12:59, 19 November 2019 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:2aee7705-dc63-2d49-af77-e737b3ce69ce |
Keywords | Milky Way Galactic Centre |
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