Fichier:NGC 4452.jpg

Le contenu de la page n’est pas pris en charge dans d’autres langues.
Une page de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Fichier d’origine(3 000 × 3 000 pixels, taille du fichier : 5,96 Mio, type MIME : image/jpeg)

Ce fichier et sa description proviennent de Wikimedia Commons.

Description

Description
English: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a striking galaxy called NGC 4452, which appears to lie exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. The result is an extraordinary picture of billions of stars observed from an unusual angle. The bright nucleus can be seen at the centre, along with the very thin disc that looks like a straight line from our unusual viewing position. To complete the picture, a hazy halo of stars on the periphery of the galaxy makes it seem to glow.

NGC 4452 was first seen by William Herschel in 1784 with his 47 cm telescope in England. He described the object as a bright nebula, small and very much elongated. The new Hubble image shows just how elongated this unusual object really is.

Galaxies are like star cities, and typically contain many billions of stars. The American astronomer Edwin Hubble, after whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named, was the first person to prove that there are other galaxies beyond our own by measuring their distances. This work, done in the 1920s, forever changed our view of the Universe.

Galaxies also belong to collections that are called galaxy clusters. NGC 4452 is part of the Virgo Cluster, so-called because many of its members appear in the constellation of Virgo (the Maiden). This enormous grouping is approximately 60 million light-years distant and contains around 2000 galaxies.

It is thought that the Local Group of galaxies, to which our own Milky Way belongs, is on the fringes of the Virgo Cluster, and at some point in the far future the Local Group may be pulled slowly into the Virgo Cluster by the force of gravity. Large numbers of much more remote, faint galaxies, far beyond NGC 4452 and the Virgo Cluster, appear in the background of this image.

This picture of NGC 4452 was created from images taken using the Wide Field Channel on Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. This picture was made from images through blue (F475W, coloured blue) and near-infrared (F850LP, coloured red) filters. The exposures times were 750 s and 1210 s respectively. The field of view extends over 2.6 arcminutes.
Date
Source http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1029a/
Auteur ESA/Hubble & NASA
Autorisation
(Réutilisation de ce fichier)
Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.
For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

Conditions d’utilisation

w:fr:Creative Commons
paternité
Ce fichier est disponible selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Non transposée.
Vous êtes libre :
  • de partager – de copier, distribuer et transmettre cette œuvre
  • d’adapter – de modifier cette œuvre
Sous les conditions suivantes :
  • paternité – Vous devez donner les informations appropriées concernant l'auteur, fournir un lien vers la licence et indiquer si des modifications ont été faites. Vous pouvez faire cela par tout moyen raisonnable, mais en aucune façon suggérant que l’auteur vous soutient ou approuve l’utilisation que vous en faites.

Légendes

Ajoutez en une ligne la description de ce que représente ce fichier

Éléments décrits dans ce fichier

dépeint

Historique du fichier

Cliquer sur une date et heure pour voir le fichier tel qu'il était à ce moment-là.

Date et heureVignetteDimensionsUtilisateurCommentaire
actuel14 décembre 2010 à 21:49Vignette pour la version du 14 décembre 2010 à 21:493 000 × 3 000 (5,96 Mio)AntonsusiBetter jpg-quality, adjusted
8 novembre 2010 à 16:24Vignette pour la version du 8 novembre 2010 à 16:243 083 × 3 083 (3,01 Mio)Jmencisom{{Information |Description={{en|1=The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a striking galaxy called NGC 4452, which appears to lie exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. The result is an extraordinary picture of billions of stars observed from an unusu

Les 3 pages suivantes utilisent ce fichier :

Usage global du fichier

Les autres wikis suivants utilisent ce fichier :

Métadonnées