Firestorm of star birth seen in a Local Galaxy
esahubble_opo0330a December 4th, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar to familiar star-birth regions inour Milky Way galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is vastlylarger in extent and contains many more recently formed stars. This monstrous star-birth region contains more than 200 brilliant blue stars within a cloud of glowing gases some 1,300 light-year sacross, nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula. By contrast,the Orion Nebula contains just four bright central stars. The bright stars in NGC 604 are extremely young by astronomical standards, having formed a mere 3 million years ago.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0330a/
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
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Ultraviolet (U) | 336.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Ultraviolet (Oii) | 375.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (H-beta) | 487.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (Oiii) | 502.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (H-alpha) | 656.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (Nii) | 658.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (Sii) | 673.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Infrared (I) | 814.0 nm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Infrared (Siii) | 953.0 nm |
- ID
- opo0330a
- Subject Category
- C.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 604
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
- Release Date
- 2003-12-04T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0330a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to Messier 33 from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Ultraviolet, Ultraviolet, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- U, Oii, H-beta, Oiii, V, H-alpha, Nii, Sii, I, Siii
- Central Wavelength
- 336, 375, 487, 502, 555, 656, 658, 673, 814, 953
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 23.6359176, 30.7838921
- Reference Dimension
- 1179.0, 1346.0
- Reference Pixel
- 590.5, 674.0
- Scale
- 2.7847095681e-05, 2.76577263907e-05
- Rotation
- -20.160000000000021
- 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
- opo0330a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0330a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:31:01+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
