Hot White Dwarf Shines in Young Star Cluster
esahubble_opo9816a April 9th, 1998
Credit: Rebecca Elson and Richard Sword, Cambridge UK, and NASA/ESA (Original WFPC2image courtesy J. Westphal, Caltech)
A dazzling 'jewel-box' collection of over 20, 000 stars can be seen in crystal clarity in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The young (40 million year old) cluster, called NGC 1818, is 164, 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The LMC, a site of vigorous current star formation, is an ideal nearby laboratory for studying stellar evolution.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9816a/
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
- opo9816a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 1818
- Credits
- Rebecca Elson and Richard Sword, Cambridge UK, and NASA/ESA (Original WFPC2image courtesy J. Westphal, Caltech)
- Release Date
- 1998-04-09T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9816a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to the LMC
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 76.059295592, -66.4408413514
- Reference Dimension
- 900.0, 889.0
- Reference Pixel
- 450.0, 444.5
- Scale
- -4.65089216269e-05, 4.65089216269e-05
- Rotation
- -44.359999999999985
- 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
- opo9816a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9816a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-09-11T09:34:09+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
