The Twin Jet Nebula
esahubble_heic1518a August 26th, 2015
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae are formed when the central object is not a single star, but a binary system, Studies have shown that the nebulas size increases with time, and measurements of this rate of increase suggest that the stellar outburst that formed the lobes occurred just 1200 years ago.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1518a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1518a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- M2-9, Twin Jet Nebula
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
- Release Date
- 2015-08-26T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1518a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, STIS , WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, V, SII
- Central Wavelength
- 502, 575, 673
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 256.408100454, -10.1423793652
- Reference Dimension
- 988.0, 826.0
- Reference Pixel
- 494.0, 413.0
- Scale
- -1.38678231502e-05, 1.38678231502e-05
- Rotation
- 92.89999999999992
- 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
- heic1518a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1518a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-03-24T17:44:29+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
