Festive nebulae
esahubble_heic1623a December 20th, 2016
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team.
This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200 000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubbles Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015, as part of a survey called the Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1623a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- heic1623a
- Subject Category
- C.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 248
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team.
- Release Date
- 2016-12-20T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1623a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, H-Alpha, V, g
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 550, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 11.3452173384, -73.3788607649
- Reference Dimension
- 2667.0, 2667.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1333.5, 1333.5
- Scale
- -1.38868888819e-05, 1.38868888819e-05
- Rotation
- -3.100000000000005
- 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
- heic1623a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1623a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-12-19T12:18:25+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
