Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
esahubble_opo0306a February 10th, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula, taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Dumbbell, a nearby planetary nebula residing more than 1,200 light-years away, is the result of an old star that has shed its outer layers in a glowing display of colour. The nebula, also known as Messier 27 (M27), was the first planetary nebula ever discovered. French astronomer Charles Messier spotted it in 1764.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0306a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0306a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2003-02-10T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0306a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- 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
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sii, Nii, H-alpha, V, Oiii
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 658, 656, 547, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 299.8841506, 22.7119809
- Reference Dimension
- 1262.0, 750.0
- Reference Pixel
- 632.0, 376.0
- Scale
- 2.75963812337e-05, 2.76577274586e-05
- Rotation
- -14.1
- 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
- opo0306a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0306a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:22:59+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
