| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1912 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1912 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| TYPE2 | Image archive |
| TITLE | M74 Galaxy or NGC 628 |
| KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;Messier |
| DATE | 2004-08-01 |
| ABSTRACT | This conspicuous spiral is a prototype of a grand-design Sc galaxy. Its distance may be about 30 to 40 million light years as it recedes with 793 km/sec. Then its spiral arms are about 1000 light years broad. They are traced with clusters of blue young stars and pinkish colored diffuse gaseous nebulae (H II regions), and reach out to cover a region of more than 10 minutes of arc in diameter, corresponding to roughly 95,000 light years, or about the same size as our Milky Way galaxy. 2 x 100s exposures in B, 2 x 80s exposures in V and 2 x 60s exposures in R. This image was created with the help of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator. PDF version: https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/dissemination/M74.pdf |
| CREDIT | Simon Dye (Cardiff University). |
| TELESCOPE | INT |
| INSTRUMENT | WFC |
| THUMB_75 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/m74ss.jpg |
| FILES | JPG (62K)
JPG (105K)
TIF (3.3M) |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-08-28 21:59:46 |
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