Gas Plume From a Newborn Star

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esahubble_opo9229b December 16th, 1992

Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,500 light-years away. Studies of similar objects infer that such highly supersonic shock waves are formed by a beam of material coming out of newly formed stars. The plume is only 1,500 years old. The image is 112 light-year across. This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of the two abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen and Oxygen. The images were taken with HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode), on August 13 and 14, 1991.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9229b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
M 42 • Messier 42 • NGC 1976 • Orion Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Star Formation
Esahubble_opo9229b_128
 

Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 35m 20.1s
DEC = -5° 24’ 53.9”
Orientation
North is 155.0° CCW
Field of View
1.2 x 0.9 arcminutes
Constellation
Orion

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC1) Optical -
Esahubble_opo9229b_1280
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ID
opo9229b
Subject Category
B.4.1.2  
Subject Name
M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula
Credits
C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
Release Date
1992-12-16T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9229b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC1
Color Assignment
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
83.8335742929, -5.4149838959
Reference Dimension
2862.0, 2111.0
Reference Pixel
1431.0, 1055.5
Scale
-6.79254966471e-06, 6.79254966471e-06
Rotation
155.03999999999996
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
opo9229b
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9229b.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:38:10+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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