Star-Forming Region in Galaxy NGC 2366
esahubble_opo9631b October 11th, 1996
Credit: Laurent Drissen, Jean-Rene Roy and Carmelle Robert (Department de Physique and Observatoire du mont Megantic, Universite Laval) and NASA/ESA
Clusters of stars and a fishhook-shaped cloud of luminescent gases glow brilliantly in NGC 2363, a giant star-forming region in the Magellanic galaxy NGC 2366. The brightest star visible on this image (at the tip of the fishhook) is a rare class called an erupting Luminous Blue Variable (LBV). This monstrous star (30 to 60 times as massive as the Sun) is in a very unstable, eruptive phase of its life.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9631b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9631b
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 2363
- Credits
- Laurent Drissen, Jean-Rene Roy and Carmelle Robert (Department de Physique and Observatoire du mont Megantic, Universite Laval) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-10-11T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9631b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance to galaxy NGC 2366 in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, He II, B
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 469, 439
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 112.179510591, 69.1894903493
- Reference Dimension
- 901.0, 821.0
- Reference Pixel
- 450.5, 410.5
- Scale
- -6.30823522211e-06, 6.30823522211e-06
- Rotation
- -0.039999999999980593
- 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
- opo9631b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9631b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:47:10+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
