File:ESO M83.jpg
Summary
This image of the nearby galaxy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_83" class="extiw" title="en:Messier 83">Messier 83</a> was taken in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infrared" class="extiw" title="en:infrared">infrared</a> part of the spectrum with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope" class="extiw" title="en:Very Large Telescope">Very Large Telescope</a>. The very fine image quality of this camera, coupled with the huge light-collecting power of the VLT, reveals vast numbers of stars within the galaxy. The images were taken in three different parts of the infrared spectrum and the total exposure time was eight and a half hours, split into more than five hundred exposures of one minute each. The field of view is about 13 arcminutes across.
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| current | 09:40, 17 January 2017 | | 7,350 × 7,350 (33.67 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | This image of the nearby galaxy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_83" class="extiw" title="en:Messier 83">Messier 83</a> was taken in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infrared" class="extiw" title="en:infrared">infrared</a> part of the spectrum with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope" class="extiw" title="en:Very Large Telescope">Very Large Telescope</a>. The very fine image quality of this camera, coupled with the huge light-collecting power of the VLT, reveals vast numbers of stars within the galaxy. The images were taken in three different parts of the infrared spectrum and the total exposure time was eight and a half hours, split into more than five hundred exposures of one minute each. The field of view is about 13 arcminutes across. |
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