Demise in ice and fire
esahubble_heic0407a April 29th, 2004
Credit: ESA/NASA and Albert Zijlstra
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones. A new Hubble image reveals fresh detail in the wings of this cosmic butterfly. Most planetary nebulae are distinctive, but few are as extreme as NGC 6302, also known as the Bug Nebula. The fiery, dying star at its centre is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0407a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0407a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- Bug Nebula, NGC 6302
- Credits
- ESA/NASA and Albert Zijlstra
- Release Date
- 2004-04-29T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0407a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12782.x/pdf
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 258.443262377, -37.1040886223
- Reference Dimension
- 1181.0, 1476.0
- Reference Pixel
- 590.5, 738.0
- Scale
- -1.27040955739e-05, 1.27040955739e-05
- Rotation
- 45.179999999999964
- 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
- heic0407a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0407a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-04-26T09:42:59+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
