N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
esahubble_opo9923b June 10th, 1999
Credit: M. Heydari-Malayeri (Paris Observatory) and NASA/ESA
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of starbirth, called N159, taking place 170,000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Torrential stellar winds from hot newborn massive stars within the nebula sculpt ridges, arcs, and filaments in the vast cloud, which is over 150 light-years across.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9923b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9923b
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- N159
- Credits
- M. Heydari-Malayeri (Paris Observatory) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1999-06-10T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9923b/
- 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
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, Oiii, H-beta
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 85.0387033126, -69.74152013
- Reference Dimension
- 1499.0, 1479.0
- Reference Pixel
- 749.5, 739.5
- Scale
- -2.76817143061e-05, 2.76817143061e-05
- Rotation
- 61.159999999999982
- 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
- opo9923b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9923b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:40:32.664399
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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