NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope View of M74
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B.E.K. Sugerman (STScI)
Observation • June 8th, 2006 • sig06-018c
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Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have created this infrared image of the spiral galaxy M74, as seen by Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera. The blue dots represent hot gas and stars. The galaxy's cool dust is shown in red.
The image is an infrared composite, in which 3.6-micron light is blue, 4.5-micron light is green, and 8-micron light is red.
About the Object
- Name
- Messier 74 • M74 • NGC 628 • Supernova 2003gd
- Type
- Galaxy > Type > Spiral
- Distance
- 30,000,000 Light Years
- Redshift
- 0.002192
Color Mapping
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Infrared | 3.6 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
| Infrared | 4.5 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
| Infrared | 8.0 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
Astrometrics
- Position (J2000)
- RA =1h 36m 41.8s
- Dec = 15° 47' 0.4"
- Field of View
- 10.0 x 10.0 arcminutes
- Orientation
- North is up
