The Egg Nebula
esahubble_opo9603a January 16th, 1996
Credit: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA
This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688 and located roughly 3, 000 light-years from us, was taken in red light with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. This image sheds new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars. The image is shown in false color.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9603a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9603a
- Subject Category
- B.4
- Subject Name
- CRL 2688, Egg Nebula
- Credits
- Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-01-16T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9603a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512601
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 315.577850184, 36.69357007
- Reference Dimension
- 745.0, 745.0
- Reference Pixel
- 372.5, 372.5
- Scale
- -2.76443996357e-05, 2.76443996357e-05
- Rotation
- -65.080000000000013
- 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
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9603a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9603a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:45:54+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
