VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula*
eso_eso1017a April 21st, 2010
Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTAAcknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. NGC 6334 is a vast region of star formation about 5500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy, some nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and most born in the last few million years. The images were taken through Y, J and Ks filters (shown as blue, green and red respectively) and the exposure time was five minutes per filter. The field of view is about one degree across. This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop. #L
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1017a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1017a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334
- Credits
- ESO/J. Emerson/VISTAAcknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- Release Date
- 2010-04-21T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1017a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
- Instrument
- VIRCAM, VIRCAM, VIRCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, J, Y
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- FK5
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 259.991754, -35.963071
- Reference Dimension
- 12502.0, 12502.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6544.84159598, 6548.52256281
- Scale
- -9.470832e-05, 9.470832e-05
- Rotation
- -31.34210295913
- 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
- eso1017a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1017a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2010-04-16T11:35:30+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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