The star cluster Westerlund 2
esahubble_heic1509c April 23rd, 2015
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
This image shows the sparkling centerpiece of Hubble's 25th anniversary tribute. Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3000 stars located 20 000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. Hubble's near-infrared imaging camera pierces through the dusty veil enshrouding the stellar nursery, giving astronomers a clear view of the dense concentration of stars in the central cluster.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1509c/
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
- heic1509c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4 B.4.2.1 B.3.6.1 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Westerlund 2
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
- Release Date
- 2015-04-23T15:15:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1509c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- V, I, J
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 814, 1250
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 156.022352656, -57.7594068753
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1500.0, 1000.0
- Scale
- -1.73342207465e-05, 1.73342207465e-05
- Rotation
- -27.679999999999986
- 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
- heic1509c
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1509c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-04-16T17:18:09-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
