A Butterfly-Shaped 'Papillon Nebula' Yields Secrets of Massive Star Birth
esahubble_opo9923c 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).
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9923c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9923c
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, 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/opo9923c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, OII
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 448.0, 442.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- opo9923c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9923c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:54:07+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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