Wide-field image of the Bubble Nebula (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic1608b April 21st, 2016

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This ground-based image shows the Bubble Nebula and its surroundings, including the interstellar cloud which is illuminated by stellar winds from the central star within the Bubble Nebula.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1608b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Bubble Nebula • NGC 7635
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Interstellar Medium; Nebula > Appearance > Emission > H II Region

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 23h 20m 46.5s; DEC = 61° 10’ 34.2”
Orientation: North is 1.6° CCW
Field of View: 2.9 x 2.4 degrees
Constellation: Cassiopeia

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B+R)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	-

ID: heic1608b
Subject Category: B.4.1.1 B.4.2.1.1
Subject Name: Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2016-04-21T17:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1608b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/344596/pdf;jsessionid=1BA890BB6DAB597F4C65FB4C6AFEEF55.c4.iopscience.cld.iop.org

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None, None
Color Assignment: Blue, Green, Red

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: B, B+R, R
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 350.193708768, 61.1761799715
Reference Dimension: 10260.0, 8662.0

Reference Pixel: 5130.0, 4331.0
Scale: -0.000279678337206, 0.000279678337206
Rotation: 1.5600000000000003
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org
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Email

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: heic1608b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1608b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2016-04-08T14:11:54+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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