Jet from Young Star
esahubble_opo9524c1 June 6th, 1995
Credit: J. Hester (Arizona State University), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA/ESA
Tip to tip, this jet spans slightly more than a light-year. The fountainhead of this structure - the young star - lies midway between the jet, and is hidden from view behind a dark cloud of dust. The nearly symmetrical blobs of gas at either end are where the jet has slammed into interstellar gas.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524c1/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9524c1
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2 B.4.1.5
- Subject Name
- HH 1, HH 2
- Credits
- J. Hester (Arizona State University), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1995-06-06T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524c1/
- 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
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- continuum, H-Alpha, OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 702, 656, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.097985688, -6.77192925803
- Reference Dimension
- 1598.0, 1598.0
- Reference Pixel
- 799.0, 799.0
- Scale
- -2.75592162933e-05, 2.75592162933e-05
- Rotation
- -18.86
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9524c1
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9524c1.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:44:04+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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