Chandra Sees Multitude of New Stars in Nearby Star-Forming Region
chandra_148 January 22nd, 2001
Credit: NASA/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.
Chandra has resolved the multitude of individual X-ray sources in one of our galaxy's most active star-forming regions. This giant cloud of dust, gas, and stars, known as NGC 3603, is approximately 20,000 light years from Earth. The hundred or more young stars in this image were born in a burst of star formation less than two million years ago. Our Sun, by comparison, is approximately 4.5 billion years old and is considered to be middle-aged.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/1123/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 148
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 3603
- Credits
- NASA/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.
- Release Date
- 2001-01-22
- Lightyears
- 20,000
- Redshift
- 20,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/1123/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- X-ray
- Bandpass
- X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267
- Start Time
- 2000-05-01T23:29:33
- Integration Time
- 50400
- Dataset ID
- 633
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 168.7837488, -61.2613669
- Reference Dimension
- 1947.0, 2100.0
- Reference Pixel
- 974.5, 1051.0
- Scale
- 3.18136e-05, 3.181363e-05
- Rotation
- -0.76
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- 1123_xray.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/1123/1123_xray.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-09-20T10:51:11-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
