Object Name:

M74, NGC 628

Object Description:

Spiral Galaxy

Position (J2000):

R.A. 01h 36m 41s.84
Dec. +15° 46' 59".60

Constellation:

Pisces

Distance:

Approximately 32 million light-years (10 million parsecs) away.

Dimensions:

The image is 3.3 arcminutes (31,000 light-years or 9,500 parsecs) wide.

Data Description:

The Hubble image was created from HST data from proposals 10402: R. Chandar (University of Toledo), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Kennicutt Jr. (University of Cambridge), L. Bianchi (Johns Hopkins University), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM/T.J. Watson Research Center), M. Regan (STScI), S. Larsen (European Southern Observatory, Germany), and J. Brodie (University of California, Santa Cruz); and proposal 9796: J. Miller (University of Michigan), G. Fabbiano and A. Zezas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Kaaret (University of Iowa), J. Grindlay (Harvard University), A. Kong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A. King (University of Leicester), M. Ward (University of Durham), V. Kalogera (Northwestern University), M. Krauss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Instrument:

ACS

Filters:

F435W (B), F555W (V), F656N (Halpha + [N II]), and F814 (I)

Exposure Date:

November/December 2003
February/June 2005

Image Credit:

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Release Date:

November 29, 2007

Color:

This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges, while one filter was used to sample a narrow wavelength band. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:

Orientation/Scale: