Hubble optical view of the Tarantula Nebula
esahubble_heic1402b January 9th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Sabbi (STScI)
This new Hubble image shows a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. This region is full of star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust. Created using observations taken as part of the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP), this image was snapped using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP) is scanning and imaging many of the many millions of stars within the Tarantula, mapping out the locations and properties of the nebula's stellar inhabitants. These observations will help astronomers to piece together an understanding of the nebula's skeleton, viewing its starry structure.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1402b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1402b
- Subject Category
- B.4
- Subject Name
- Tarantula Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, E. Sabbi (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2014-01-09T16:15:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1402b/
- 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
- Instrument
- ACS, WFC3, ACS, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, H-alpha, V, V, UV, UV
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 555, 555, 336, 225
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.5931770886, -69.1216000325
- Reference Dimension
- 17730.0, 13180.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8865.0, 6590.0
- Scale
- -1.10169559231e-05, 1.10169559231e-05
- Rotation
- 35.01999999999996
- 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
- heic1402b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1402b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-12-30T13:57:17-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
