WR 136 - the Star behind the Crescent Nebula
esahubble_opo0023c July 13th, 2000
Credit: Brian D. Moore, Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen, Reginald Dufour and NASA/ESA
WR 136 created this web of luminous material during the late stages of its life. As a bloated, red super-giant, WR 136 gently puffed away some of its bulk, which settled around it. When the star passed from a super-giant to a Wolf-Rayet, it developed a fierce stellar wind - a stream of charged particles released from its surface - and began expelling mass at a furious rate.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0023c/
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
- ID
- opo0023c
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.4
- Subject Name
- Crescent Nebula, IRAS 20102+3812, WR 136
- Credits
- Brian D. Moore, Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen, Reginald Dufour and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 2000-07-13T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0023c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 303.060192203, 38.4000638271
- Reference Dimension
- 2217.0, 2217.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1108.5, 1108.5
- Scale
- -0.000120352519147, 0.000120352519147
- Rotation
- -0.72
- 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
- opo0023c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0023c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:16:30+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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