Planetary Nebula NGC 7027

esahubble_opo9811d March 19th, 1998

Credit: William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/Caltech) and NASA/ESA

This composite colour image of NGC 7027 is among the first data of a planetary nebula taken with NICMOS. This picture is actually composed of three separate images taken at different wavelengths. The red colour represents cool molecular hydrogen gas, the most abundant gas in the universe.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9811d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 7027
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Planetary

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 21h 7m 1.3s; DEC = 42° 14’ 9.8”
Orientation: North is 103.4° CCW
Field of View: 0.4 x 0.4 arcminutes
Constellation: Cygnus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (Near-IR)	1.1 µm
Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (Near-IR)	2.2 µm
Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (Near-IR)	2.1 µm

ID: opo9811d
Subject Category: B.4.1.3
Subject Name: NGC 7027
Credits: William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/Caltech) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1998-03-19T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9811d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/681/2/1296/pdf/74003.web.pdf

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass: Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR
Central Wavelength: 1100, 2150, 2120

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 316.755602456, 42.2360573201
Reference Dimension: 527.0, 485.0

Reference Pixel: 263.5, 242.5
Scale: -1.20555896879e-05, 1.20555896879e-05
Rotation: 103.43999999999997
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: opo9811d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9811d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:50:32+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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