WFPC2 Mosaic of Carina Nebula Region

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esahubble_opo0331b November 6th, 2003

Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera, shows a three light-year-wide portion of the Carina Nebula, which has a diameter of over 200 light-years. This region in the Carina Nebula is between two large clusters of some of the hottest and most massive stars known. The dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures captured in this image are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from an ultra-luminous variable star called Eta Carinae.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0331b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Carina Nebula NGC 3372
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 10h 44m 58.9s
DEC = -59° 35’ 58.7”
Orientation
North is 173.3° CW
Field of View
2.5 x 2.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Carina

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (B) 450.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
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ID
opo0331b
Subject Category
B.4  
Subject Name
Carina Nebula, NGC 3372
Credits
NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Release Date
2003-11-06T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0331b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, V, B
Central Wavelength
814, 606, 450
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
161.245357226, -59.5996387852
Reference Dimension
1500.0, 1479.0
Reference Pixel
750.0, 739.5
Scale
-2.7635387117e-05, 2.7635387117e-05
Rotation
-173.25999999999979
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
opo0331b
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:31:09+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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