Hubble's Planetary Nebula Gallery. A View of NGC 3918
esahubble_opo9738e December 17th, 1997
Credit: Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA
NGC 3918 is in the constellation Centaurus and is about 3, 000 light-years from us. Its diameter is about 0.3 light-year. It shows a roughly spherical outer envelope but an elongated inner balloon inflated by a fast wind from the hot central star, which is starting to break out of the spherical envelope at the top and bottom of the image.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9738e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- opo9738e
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 11478-5654, NGC 3918
- Credits
- Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-12-17T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9738e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 660, 180
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 177.574547753, -57.1824002479
- Reference Dimension
- 750.0, 748.0
- Reference Pixel
- 375.0, 374.0
- Scale
- -1.2608086141e-05, 1.2608086141e-05
- Rotation
- 101.94000000000003
- 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
- opo9738e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9738e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:49:45+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
