LHA 120-N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
esahubble_heic1301a January 17th, 2013
Credit: NASA, ESA. Acknowledgement: Josh Lake
Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. As the Milky Ways gravity gently tugs on its neighbours gas clouds, they collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a kaleidoscope of colours, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1301a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic1301a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- LHA 120-N 11, NGC 1769
- Credits
- NASA, ESA. Acknowledgement: Josh Lake
- Release Date
- 2013-01-17T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1301a/
- 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
- Red, Red, Green, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, I, R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 814, 660, 550, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 74.4258409587, -66.4631732212
- Reference Dimension
- 1989.0, 1506.0
- Reference Pixel
- 994.5, 753.0
- Scale
- -1.38781346024e-05, 1.38781346024e-05
- Rotation
- 95.399999999999991
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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
- heic1301a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1301a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-12-18T15:52:22+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
