M104 Galaxy in Infrared Light
xantox, 23 January 2007 in GalleryOther Languages:
Infrared-light composite filtered image of M104 Galaxy taken by Spitzer Space Telescope in june 2004. Galaxy M104 (”Sombrero galaxy”) is located in the Virgo cluster, at a distance of about 30 million light-years. Its giant ring of dust spans over 50000 light years. It is believed that a supermassive black hole of a billion solar masses is located at its center.
- © NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona), and the SINGS Team [↩]
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18 February 2007, 3:54 pm
i assume that this image is taken in IR. So how does those colours come?
18 February 2007, 5:07 pm
It is a composite image obtained with four snapshots, each taken with a different IR filter at different wavelength.