Glowing stellar nurseries*
eso_eso0840a November 11th, 2008
Credit: ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)
Colour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red). This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0840a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso0840a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- RCW120
- Credits
- ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)
- Release Date
- 2008-11-11T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0840a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Other, None
- Instrument
- LABOCA, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Submillimetre, B, Pseudogreen (R+I), R, R, -
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 258.100145, -38.469859
- Reference Dimension
- 1872.0, 2348.0
- Reference Pixel
- 899.758945791, 1009.4660523
- Scale
- -0.00027956304, 0.00027956304
- Rotation
- -1.78180975708
- 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
- eso0840a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0840a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-11-11T11:23:52+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
