First Hubble Space Telescope observations of the brightest stars in the Virgo galaxy M100 = NGC 4321
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First Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Brightest Stars in the Virgo Galaxy
As part of both the Early Release Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Key ProjeCt on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, we have obtained multiwavelength BVR WFPC2 images for the face-on Virgo cluster spiral galaxy M100 = NGC 4321. We report here preliminary results from those observations, in the form of a color-magnitude diagram for -11,500 stars down to V 27 mag and a luminosi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/187587