DSS + insert, annotated
eso_eso0923b June 25th, 2009
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
This wide-field image contains the area where a team of researchers confirmed that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars. The red line guides the eye to various regions where the remnants of the stellar explosion are most visible. The boxed area contains an insert of data from the VLT and Chandra. This region, named RCW 86, is centered on the position where a star exploded in 185 AD. The field of view is 4 degrees across with north to the top and east to the left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0923b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0923b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- RCW 86
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2009-06-25T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0923b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 220.120564, -62.645116
- Reference Dimension
- 1660.0, 1660.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1073.14916913, 687.019238533
- Scale
- -0.00111908843, 0.00111908843
- Rotation
- 0.76767496958
- 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
- eso0923b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0923b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-06-23T11:56:52+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
