New Hubble image of NGC 2174
esahubble_heic1406a March 17th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
To celebrate its 24th year in orbit, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released this beautiful new image of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula. NGC 2174 lies about 6400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Hubble previously viewed this part of the sky back in 2011 the colourful region is filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. This portion of the Monkey Head Nebula was imaged in the infrared using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1406a/
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
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- ID
- heic1406a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2174
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2014-03-17T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1406a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, J, Y
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1250, 1050
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 92.2911771762, 20.4590681203
- Reference Dimension
- 1858.0, 1858.0
- Reference Pixel
- 929.0, 929.0
- Scale
- -3.56382264848e-05, 3.56382264848e-05
- Rotation
- -145.05999999999966
- 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
- heic1406a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1406a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-03-06T16:50:27-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
