The 'Rotten Egg' nebula - a planetary nebula in the making
esahubble_heic9903d October 19th, 1999
Credit: NASA, ESA, William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/California Institute of Technology), John H. Bieging (University of Arizona), Casey Meakin (University of Arizona), A.G.G.M. Tielens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), Aditya Dayal (IPAC/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Joseph L. Hora (Center for Astrophysics), and DouglasM. Kelly (University of Arizona)
This is a composite of four images taken with different NICMOS infrared filters on March 28, 1998. It shows that the physical properties of the material, both composition and temperature, vary significantly throughout the outflowing material.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic9903d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic9903d
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- Calabash Nebula, Rotten Egg Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/California Institute of Technology), John H. Bieging (University of Arizona), Casey Meakin (University of Arizona), A.G.G.M. Tielens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), Aditya Dayal (IPAC/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Joseph L. Hora (Center for Astrophysics), and DouglasM. Kelly (University of Arizona)
- Release Date
- 1999-10-19T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic9903d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/136/1/118/fulltext
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, Pa-alpha, K
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 115.570205487, -14.7134964888
- Reference Dimension
- 860.0, 231.0
- Reference Pixel
- 430.0, 115.5
- Scale
- -2.09003503488e-05, 2.09003503488e-05
- Rotation
- -116.07999999999994
- 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
- heic9903d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic9903d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:14:41+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
