Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula
esahubble_opo0019b August 24th, 2000
Credit: K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.) and NASA/ESA
Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. The orbiting observatory's near-infrared camera revealed about 50 of these objects throughout the Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster about 1, 500 light-years from Earth.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019b/
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
- opo0019b
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Orion Nebula, Trapezium Cluster
- Credits
- K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 2000-08-24T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8198610402, -5.38332975198
- Reference Dimension
- 700.0, 701.0
- Reference Pixel
- 350.0, 350.5
- Scale
- -5.6398133871e-05, 5.6398133871e-05
- Rotation
- -1.3200000000000003
- 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
- opo0019b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0019b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:16:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
