The Orion Nebula OMC-1 Region
esahubble_opo9713c May 12th, 1997
Credit: Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Susan Stolovy (University of Arizona); Edwin Erickson (SETI Institute/Ames Research Center); David Axon (STScI); and NASA/ESA
NICMOS's infrared vision reveals a chaotic, active star birth region (as seen in the right-hand image). Here, stars and glowing interstellar dust, heated by and scattering the intense starlight, appear yellow-orange. Emission by excited hydrogen molecules appears blue. The image is oriented with north up and east to the left. The diagonal extent of the image is about 0.4 light-years. Some details are as small as the size of our solar system.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9713c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9713c
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Susan Stolovy (University of Arizona); Edwin Erickson (SETI Institute/Ames Research Center); David Axon (STScI); and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-05-12T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9713c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 1100, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.808711709, -5.37262393609
- Reference Dimension
- 611.0, 743.0
- Reference Pixel
- 305.5, 371.5
- Scale
- -2.11468261644e-05, 2.11468261644e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9713c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9713c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:04+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
