'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy
esahubble_opo0229a December 5th, 2002
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The 'double bubble, ' called N30B, is inside a larger nebula, named DEM L 106. The larger nebula is embedded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located 160, 000 light-years away. The wispy filaments of DEM L 106 fill much of the image.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0229a/
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
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0229a
- Subject Category
- C.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- DEM L 106, Large Magellanic Cloud, LHA 120-N 30B, N30B
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2002-12-05T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0229a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to the LMC
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, SII, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 673, 656, 555, 439
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 78.4611224, -67.4620552
- Reference Dimension
- 747.0, 1218.0
- Reference Pixel
- 374.5, 610.0
- Scale
- 2.76945450249e-05, 2.76402690206e-05
- Rotation
- -4
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo0229a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0229a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:22:09+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
