Putting the Jewel Box in perspective (composite image)

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eso_eso0940e October 29th, 2009

Credit: ESO, NASA/ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

This composite image serves as a still “zoom-in”, showing the rich star field in which NGC 4755 nestles and then moving in to the detailed Hubble image of the Kappa Crucis Cluster, or Jewel Box, itself. The range of images begins with a very wide-field view of the sky surrounding NGC 4755. The images then progressively “zoom in” to reveal a “close-up” of the Jewel Box, featuring several very bright, pale blue supergiant stars, a solitary ruby-red supergiant and a variety of other brilliantly coloured stars. The picture on the top left was taken from the ground with a 35-mm camera. The next image is from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, a large digital atlas of the sky. Next is a very sharp image from the FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The first image (left) on the bottom row was taken by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. The last image (at bottom right) is the one taken by the legendary (and now retired) WFPC2 aboard Hubble.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940e/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Jewel Box NGC 4755
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Grouping > Cluster > Open

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
DSS2 (None) Optical -
VLT (FORS1) Optical -
VLT (FORS1) Infrared -
MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical -
MPG-2.2m (WFI) Infrared -
Hubble (WFPC2) Ultraviolet -
Hubble (WFPC2) Optical -
Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared -
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ID
eso0940e
Subject Category
B.3.6.4.1  
Subject Name
Jewel Box, NGC 4755
Credits
ESO, NASA/ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
Release Date
2009-10-29T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940e/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Digitized Sky Survey 2, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
None, FORS1, FORS1, WFI, WFI, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Band
Optical, Optical, Infrared, Optical, Infrared, Ultraviolet, Optical, Infrared
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
4961.0, 3425.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso0940e
Metadata Date
2009-10-28T13:58:25+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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