File:Excerpt of the DESI measurements of the Andromeda Galaxy (noirlab2304b).jpg
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DescriptionExcerpt of the DESI measurements of the Andromeda Galaxy (noirlab2304b).jpg |
English: A team of researchers led by astronomers at NSF’s NOIRLab has uncovered striking new evidence for a mass migration of stars into the Andromeda Galaxy. Intricate patterns in the motions of stars reveal an immigration history very similar to that of the Milky Way. The new results were obtained with the DOE’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. |
Date | 8 February 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Excerpt of the DESI measurements of the Andromeda Galaxy |
Author | KPNO/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/Local Group Survey Team/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)/D. de Martin/M. Zamani |
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Credit/Provider | KPNO/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/Local Group Survey Team/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)/D. de Martin/M. Zamani |
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Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 09:00, 8 February 2023 |
JPEG file comment | This image was created with data from the Local Group Survey, completed with the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. M31, M33 and our Milky Way are the three largest members of the Local Group of galaxies. M31 is a spiral galaxy very similar in size and mass to our own. Ten 'pointings' of the camera along the galaxy in five filters were used to make the image. You could line seven full moons across the image. The image was generated with observations with the U (violet), B (blue), V (cyan), I (orange) and H-alpha (red) filters. The five filters show the star colors and HII star forming regions in vivid detail. About 600 million pixels in size, it is the largest and most detailed image of M31 ever completed that covers the entire galaxy. This image is rotated CW 127 degrees from North is up, East to the left. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 02:28, 12 December 2022 |
Date and time of digitizing | 04:59, 10 June 2014 |
Date metadata was last modified | 03:28, 12 December 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:CE1F7E552D2668118C1480A4B191413E |
Keywords | M31 |
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