The massive compact star cluster in NGC 3603 and its surroundings
esahubble_heic1009c May 31st, 2010
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
This view of the rich star formation region NGC 3603 and its massive compact central star cluster was taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The region that was studied in detail to detect the motion of stars within the cluster is shown as a box.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1009c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
View Options
Download Options
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
×
- ID
- heic1009c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 3603
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
- Release Date
- 2010-05-31T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1009c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 550, 850
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 168.786246885, -61.2623428519
- Reference Dimension
- 3885.0, 3904.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1942.5, 1952.0
- Scale
- -1.39048315515e-05, 1.39048315515e-05
- Rotation
- 61.499999999999922
- 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
- heic1009c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1009c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-05-31T13:42:22+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
×
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
