Trapezium, Orion Nebula

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esahubble_opo9545j November 20th, 1995

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

The Orion nebula has a dramatic surface topography of glowing gasses instead of rock with peaks, valleys and walls. They are illuminated and heated by a torrent of energetic ultraviolet light from its four hottest and most massive stars, called the Trapezium, which are pictured here. In addition to the Trapezium, this stellar cavern contains 700 hundred other young stars at various stages of formation. High-speed jets of hot gas spewed by some of the infant stars send supersonic shock waves tearing into the nebula at 100,000 miles per hour.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545j/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Messier 42 NGC 1976 Orion Nebula Trapezium Cluster
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Grouping > Cluster > Open
Nebula > Type > Star Formation
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 35m 16.4s
DEC = -5° 23’ 16.9”
Orientation
North is 44.3° CCW
Field of View
1.2 x 1.4 arcminutes
Constellation
Orion

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (NII) 658.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (H-alpha) 656.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (OIII) 502.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
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ID
opo9545j
Subject Category
B.3.6.4.1   B.4.1.2  
Subject Name
Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula, Trapezium Cluster
Credits
NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)
Release Date
1995-11-20T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545j/
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
NII, H-alpha, OIII
Central Wavelength
658, 656, 502
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
83.8184567601, -5.38804082961
Reference Dimension
751.0, 829.0
Reference Pixel
375.5, 414.5
Scale
-2.7571704692e-05, 2.7571704692e-05
Rotation
44.299999999999969
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
opo9545j
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:45:00+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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