NICMOS Peers Into Heart of Dying Star

Esahubble_opo9711c_1024

esahubble_opo9711c May 12th, 1997

Credit: Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Dean Hines (Universityof Arizona); Raghvendra Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); NICMOS Instrument Definition Team; and NASA/ESA

The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown as it appears in infrared light with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9711c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
CRL 2688 Egg Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula
Esahubble_opo9711c_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 21h 2m 18.7s
DEC = 36° 41’ 37.5”
Orientation
North is 56.5° CW
Field of View
0.3 x 0.3 arcminutes
Constellation
Cygnus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor None (None) Infrared -
Blue Hubble (NICMOS) Optical (Near-IR) -
Esahubble_opo9711c_1280
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ID
opo9711c
Subject Category
B.4  
Subject Name
CRL 2688, Egg Nebula
Credits
Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Dean Hines (Universityof Arizona); Raghvendra Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); NICMOS Instrument Definition Team; and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1997-05-12T17:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9711c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
None, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
None, NICMOS
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical
Bandpass
-, Near-IR
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
315.577882962, 36.6937438355
Reference Dimension
229.0, 250.0
Reference Pixel
114.5, 125.0
Scale
-2.13317127234e-05, 2.13317127234e-05
Rotation
-56.460000000000036
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
opo9711c
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:47:59+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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