Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
esahubble_heic1011a June 22nd, 2010
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
This broad vista of young stars and gas clouds in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). This region is named LHA 120-N 11, informally known as N11, and is one of the most active star formation regions in the nearby Universe. This picture is a mosaic of ACS data from five different positions and covers a region about six arcminutes across.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1011a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1011a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- LHA 120-N 11
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
- Release Date
- 2010-06-22T11:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1011a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 660, 550, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 74.193858357, -66.4386951556
- Reference Dimension
- 7546.0, 7418.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3773.0, 3709.0
- Scale
- -1.38970258597e-05, 1.38970258597e-05
- Rotation
- -0.060000000000000012
- 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
- heic1011a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1011a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-06-23T16:12:37+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
