NGC 3576
eso_eso0817b May 27th, 2008
Credit: ESO
Located 9,000 light-years away, NGC 3576 is a gigantic region of glowing gas about 100 light-years across, where stars are currently forming. The intense radiation and winds from the massive stars are shredding the clouds from which they form, creating dramatic scenery. The black area in the right middle part of the image is dark because of the presence of very dense, opaque clouds of gas and dust. The data used to make this colour-composite images were taken with ISAAC on the VLT, in the framework of observing proposal 079.C-0203(A). The image processing was done by Yuri Beletsky (ESO) and Hännes Heyer (ESO). It is based on data taken through 4 different narrow-band filters centred around 1.21, 1.71, 2.09 and 3.28 microns.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0817b/
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
- eso0817b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 3576
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2008-05-27T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0817b/
- Type
- Document
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/153/2/501/pdf/59809.web.pdf
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ISAAC, ISAAC, ISAAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- 2090, 1710, 1210
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 167.971436388, -61.303251216
- Reference Dimension
- 1039.0, 1105.0
- Reference Pixel
- 477.222345429, 517.445157465
- Scale
- -4.11834159772e-05, 4.1327336798e-05
- Rotation
- -90.1753875446116
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- The source image needs to flip vertically!
- 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
- eso0817b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0817b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-20T11:37:48+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
