The Orion Nebula's biggest stars
esahubble_heic0601d January 11th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
Packed into the centre of this region are bright lights of the Trapezium stars, the four heftiest stars in the Orion Nebula. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. The dark speck near the bottom, right of the image is a silhouette of an edge-on disk encircling a young star. Another whitish-looking disk is visible near the bottom, left, just above the two bright stars. This disk is encased in a bubble of gas and dust.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0601d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0601d
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Messier 43, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
- Release Date
- 2006-01-11T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0601d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- B, V, H-alpha, I, Z, -, -, -, -
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- A
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8161515357, -5.39418492383
- Reference Dimension
- 3939.0, 2955.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1969.0, 1477.0
- Scale
- 2.77894067197e-05, 2.77894067197e-05
- Rotation
- -0.019999999999999993
- 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
- heic0601d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0601d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-01-02T14:11:40-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
