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News Release 05-117
Scanning the Universe, Round Two
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NGC 7814 is a disk galaxy not too different from our own Milky Way galaxy. From our perspective here on Earth we see it edge on. As a result, we cannot determine whether it has a spiral structure. But in the image taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we can very clearly see the dust in its disk and its bright central bulge. The brightest globular clusters associated with NGC 7814 can also be seen; they appear as point sources near the galaxy.
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Constance Rockosi, a graduate student at the University of Chicago and a member of the multi-institutional team that built the digital scanning camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, checks the status of the instrument during its first on-the-sky trial runs in May 1998. The camera is located at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico.
Credit: Fermilab Visual Media Services
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