The galaxy NGC 1068 (also known as M77)

Contact Scientist: Dr. Robin Shelton
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Phone number: (706) 542-2860
E-mail: rls at physast.uga.edu

Press release images and captions:
"Observation of NGC 1068's Bulge and Disk" (tiff) (jpg)(gif)
"Image of NGC 1068 taken with the Optical Monitor aboard the XMM Satellite"
"Image of NGC 1068 taken with the Optical Monitor aboard the XMM Satellite, colors are coded to brightness, location of the observed regions are marked HIRS and LWRS"(tiff) (jpg)


The poster and additional images:
The poster (tiff) (pdf) (jpg)
Sketch of observation (tiff) (jpg)(gif)
Cartoon of the hot gas in the Milky Way


Images of NGC 1068 taken by the Optical Monitor on the X-ray Multimirror (XMM) satellite:
Black & white jpg image with logarithmic scaling
Bright black & white jpg image with logarithmic scaling
White on black jpg image with logarithmic scaling
"False" color jpg image with linear scaling
Similar "false" color pdf image with coordinates and the locations of the FUSE observations (tiff) (jpg)
NASA's Education and Public Outreach website for XMM-Newton
European Space Agency website for XMM-Newton


Background information about galaxies and the gas within galaxies:
Univ. of Arizona primer on the Milky Way
Wikipedia entry for Spiral galaxies
Wikipedia entry for NGC 1068
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space webpage on NGC 1068 (M77)
Wikipedia entry for the gas within galaxies (the "interstellar medium")


Links to the conference, the telescope that took the data that we used, and NASA:
Conference: American Astronomical Society 208th meeting, June 4-8, Calgary, Canada
Telescope: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
NASA: Science Mission Directorate


Links for me and my home institution:
My departmentmental webpage: http://hal.physast.uga.edu/people/fac-rls.html
My home institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Georgia