More M49

M49 (NGC 4472) is by some measures the optically brightest galaxy in the

Virgo cluster, slightly outshining M87. It lies in a subclump of the cluster

about 4 degrees south of the cluster center.

This pseudocolor image is from a red-light CCD frame taken with the

Lowell Observatory 1.1-meter telescope

(actually, it was taken to calibrate some narrow-band filters on a galaxy

with no detectable H-alpha emission).

From Bill Keel’s

image collection

at the University of Alabama.

• More images of M49

  

  Image of M49 from an anonymous source

  

  HEAO-2 (Einstein) satellite image

  of the giant Virgo cluster elliptical M49 in the X-ray radiation.

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  Hartmut Frommert

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  Christine Kronberg

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  Last Modification: 27 Jun 1999, 16:00 MET