Pillars around Westerlund 2
esahubble_heic1509e 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 an example of the pillars that surround the star cluster Westerlund 2. These pillars are composed of dense gas and dust are a few light-years tall and point to the central cluster. They are thought to be incubators for new stars. Besides sculpting the gaseous terrain, intense radiation from the most brilliant of the cluster stars is creating a successive generation of baby stars. This is a section of the new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of Westerlund 2 and its surroundings, released to celebrate Hubbles 25th anniversary.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1509e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- heic1509e
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.1 B.3.6.4 B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1.1
- 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://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1509e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- J, I, V
- Central Wavelength
- 1250, 814, 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 156.097430272, -57.7627621142
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1500.0, 1000.0
- Scale
- -1.03541474848e-05, 1.03541474848e-05
- Rotation
- 60.260000000000069
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1509e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1509e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-04-16T17:18:54-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
