Head of column No. 2 in Eagle Nebula
eso_eso0142d December 20th, 2001
Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean & M.Andersen (AIP)
Enlarged view of the head of Column 2. The bright blue-yellow source embedded in nebulosity near the tip is another young star unseen in the Hubble images: although it appears to be double here, it is in fact just one relatively massive young star surrounding by nebulosity. Technical information: The region shown measures 1.9 x 2.8 light-years (0.6 x 0.9 pc). The intensity scalings have been adjusted to better show the young stars embedded in the head of each column. North is up and East left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0142d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, 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
- eso0142d
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Eagle Nebula, Messier 16
- Credits
- ESO/M.McCaughrean & M.Andersen (AIP)
- Release Date
- 2001-12-20T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0142d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from SEDS.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ISAAC, ISAAC, ISAAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 274.70004, -13.820092
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 598.0
- Reference Pixel
- 746.055094523, 938.068233102
- Scale
- -1.900749e-05, 1.900749e-05
- Rotation
- -3.33880678071
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0142d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0142d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-12-19T14:33:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
