Jets from Young Stars (HH-47)

Esahubble_opo9524i_1024

esahubble_opo9524i June 6th, 1995

Credit: J. Morse (STScI), and NASA/ESA Co-investigators: B. Reipurth (European Southern Observ.), S. Heathcote (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observ.), P. Hartigan (Rice Univ.), J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado), R. Schwartz (Univ. of Missouri), J. Stone (Univ. of Maryland)

Resembling the vertebrae of an imaginary space alien, this one-half light-year long jet of gas has burst out of a dark cloud of gas and dust which hides the newly forming star located in the lower left corner of the image.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524i/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
HH 47
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object
Nebula > Type > Jet
Esahubble_opo9524i_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 8h 25m 47.2s
DEC = -51° 0’ 15.7”
Orientation
North is 10.5° CW
Field of View
1.1 x 1.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Vela

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (R) 673.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_opo9524i_1280
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ID
opo9524i
Subject Category
B.3.1.2   B.4.1.5  
Subject Name
HH 47
Credits
J. Morse (STScI), and NASA/ESA Co-investigators: B. Reipurth (European Southern Observ.), S. Heathcote (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observ.), P. Hartigan (Rice Univ.), J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado), R. Schwartz (Univ. of Missouri), J. Stone (Univ. of Maryland)
Release Date
1995-06-06T20:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524i/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
R
Central Wavelength
673
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
126.446808215, -51.0043475812
Reference Dimension
674.0, 708.0
Reference Pixel
337.0, 354.0
Scale
-2.76422054706e-05, 2.76422054706e-05
Rotation
-10.479999999999995
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
opo9524i
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:44:14+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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