Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze

esahubble_opo0212c May 9th, 2002

Credit: R. Chris Smith (CTIO) and Y.-H. Chu (UICU)

Composite image of ground-based [S II] image (white; taken at the Curtis Schmidt Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile ) and ROSAT PSPC X-ray image (red).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0212c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: N44
Subject - Local Universe: Nebula > Appearance > Emission > H II Region

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 5h 22m 11.5s; DEC = -67° 56’ 37.0”
Orientation: North is 0.3° CW
Field of View: 21.4 x 21.2 arcminutes
Constellation: Dorado

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Other (None)	X-ray	-
Other (None)	Optical (SII)	-

ID: opo0212c
Subject Category: C.4.2.1.1
Subject Name: N44
Credits: R. Chris Smith (CTIO) and Y.-H. Chu (UICU)

Release Date: 2002-05-09T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0212c/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Other, Other
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Grayscale

Band: X-ray, Optical
Bandpass: -, SII
Central Wavelength

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 80.5480687685, -67.9436007773
Reference Dimension: 600.0, 595.0

Reference Pixel: 300.0, 297.5
Scale: -0.000593581669445, 0.000593581669445
Rotation: -0.32
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: opo0212c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0212c.jpg
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:27.342016
Metadata Version: 1.1

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