Magellanic gemstone in the southern sky [NGC 290]
esahubble_heic0603c April 18th, 2006
Credit: European Space Agency & NASA Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) and Edward W. Olszewski (University of Arizona, USA)
Hubble has captured the most detailed image to date of the open star cluster NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show a myriad of stars in crystal clear detail. The brilliant open star cluster, NGC 290, is located about 200,000 light-years away and is roughly 65 light-years across.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0603c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0603c
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 290
- Credits
- European Space Agency & NASA Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) and Edward W. Olszewski (University of Arizona, USA)
- Release Date
- 2006-04-18T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0603c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555, 439
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 12.8110555305, -73.161988845
- Reference Dimension
- 1701.0, 1701.0
- Reference Pixel
- 851.5, 851.5
- Scale
- -1.38837996995e-05, 1.38837996995e-05
- Rotation
- -21.800000000000004
- 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
- heic0603c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0603c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-04-04T09:19:28+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
