Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
esahubble_heic0515a December 1st, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well studied objects in astronomy. This image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble's WFPC2 camera. It was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0515a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0515a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- Crab Nebula, Messier 1
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2005-12-01T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic0515a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, SII, OI
- Central Wavelength
- 502, 673, 631
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.6355343, 22.0152411
- Reference Dimension
- 3864.0, 3864.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1933.0, 1933.0
- Scale
- -2.76551527063e-05, 2.76381692778e-05
- Rotation
- 0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0515a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic0515a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-11-29T10:02:37+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
