The mysterious 'Garden-sprinkler' nebula
esahubble_heic0308a May 22nd, 2003
Credit: European Space Agency, A. Riera (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) and P. Garcia-Lario (European Space Agency ISO Data Centre, Spain)
There are many mysterious objects seen in the night sky which are not really well understood. For example, astronomers are puzzled by the 'jets' emerging from planetary nebulae. However, the S-shaped jet from Henize 3-1475 is the most perplexing of all. 'Jets' are long outflows of fast-moving gas found near many objects in the Universe, such as around young stars, or coming from black holes, neutron stars, and planetary nebulae, for example. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the young planetary nebula Henize 3-1475 and its bizarre jet. Astronomers have nicknamed it the 'Garden-sprinkler' Nebula.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0308a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0308a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- Garden-sprinkler Nebula, Hen 3-1475
- Credits
- European Space Agency, A. Riera (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) and P. Garcia-Lario (European Space Agency ISO Data Centre, Spain)
- Release Date
- 2003-05-22T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0308a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 656, 631, 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.308992133, -17.9462549185
- Reference Dimension
- 1024.0, 792.0
- Reference Pixel
- 512.0, 396.0
- Scale
- -6.3208955761e-06, 6.3208955761e-06
- Rotation
- -188.57999999999984
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0308a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0308a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:12:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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