Moving heart of the Crab Nebula
esahubble_heic1614a July 7th, 2016
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASAAcknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani
While many other images of the famous Crab Nebula have focused on the filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the Crab Nebula including the central neutron star it is the rightmost of the two bright stars near the centre of this image. The rapid motion of the material nearest to the central star is revealed by the subtle rainbow of colours in this time-lapse image, the rainbow effect being due to the movement of material over the time between one image and another.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1614a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1614a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- Crab Nebula
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & NASAAcknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani
- Release Date
- 2016-07-07T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1614a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Cyan, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 550, 550, 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.6340067342, 22.0185096382
- Reference Dimension
- 2125.0, 2077.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1062.5, 1038.5
- Scale
- -1.38821803526e-05, 1.38821803526e-05
- Rotation
- 92.4
- 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
- heic1614a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1614a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-02-28T00:39:27.244591
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
