The glowing eye of NGC 6751

Esahubble_opo0012a_1024

esahubble_opo0012a April 6th, 2000

Credit: NASA/ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA

The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial 'eye', known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The Hubble Heritage Project is releasing this picture to commemorate the Hubble telescope's tenth anniversary. Glowing in the constellation Aquila, the nebula is a cloud of gas ejected several thousand years ago from the hot star visible in its center. Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They are shells of gas thrown off by Sun-like stars nearing the ends of their lives. The star's loss of its outer gaseous layers exposes the hot stellar core, whose strong ultraviolet radiation then causes the ejected gas to fluoresce as the planetary nebula.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0012a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 6751
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Planetary
Esahubble_opo0012a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 19h 5m 55.4s
DEC = -5° 59’ 30.3”
Orientation
North is 124.0° CW
Field of View
0.5 x 0.6 arcminutes
Constellation
Aquila

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (Nii) 658.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 555.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (Oiii) 502.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
Esahubble_opo0012a_1280
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ID
opo0012a
Subject Category
B.4.1.3  
Subject Name
NGC 6751
Credits
NASA/ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA
Release Date
2000-04-06T07:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0012a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/722/2/1260/pdf/0004-637X_722_2_1260.pdf
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
Nii, V, Oiii
Central Wavelength
658, 555, 502
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
286.4806568, -5.9917601
Reference Dimension
704.0, 842.0
Reference Pixel
353.0, 422.0
Scale
1.25949890965e-05, 1.25294912907e-05
Rotation
-124
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
WCS info from NASA/Hubble
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
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
opo0012a
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:16:09+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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