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About this Object
Object Name:
 M83, NGC 5236, Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Object Description:
 Barred Spiral Galaxy
Position (J2000.0):
R.A. 13h 37m 0s.95
Dec. -29° 51' 55".51
Constellation:
 Hydra
Distance:
 15 million light-years (4.5 million parsecs)
About the Data
Data Description:
 The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona); and 12513: W. Blair (JHU), K. Long (STScI), F. Winkler (Middlebury College), R. Soria (Curtin University), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Chandar (University of Toledo), P. Ghavamian (Towson University), M. Dopita (Australian National University), and B. Rangelov (George Washington University).
Instrument:
 WFC3/UVIS
Filters:
 F336W (U), F438W (B), F547M (Strömgren y), F555W (V), F657N (H-alpha), and F814W (I)
Exposure Date:
 August 2009 - September 2012
About this Image
Credit:
 NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Release Date:
 January 9, 2014
Color:
 This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are:
F336W (U) purple
F438W (B) blue
F555W (V) + F547M (Strömgren y) green
F657N (H-alpha) orange
F814W (I) red
Orientation/Scale: