Around IRAS 13481-6124
eso_eso1029d July 14th, 2010
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
The object IRAS 13481-6124, which consists of a young central star, about 20 times the mass of our Sun and 5 times its radius, surrounded by its pre-natal cocoon, is the first massive baby star for which astronomers could obtain an image of a dusty disc closely encircling it, providing direct evidence that massive stars do form in the same way as their smaller brethren — and closing an enduring debate. IRAS 13481-6124 is located in the constellation of Centaurus, about 10 000 light-years away.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1029d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1029d
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2
- Subject Name
- IRAS 13481-6124
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2010-07-14T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1029d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- 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
- 207.907652, -61.652163
- Reference Dimension
- 10661.0, 10691.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5335.43180491, 5342.97196465
- Scale
- -0.00027999581, 0.00027999581
- Rotation
- -1.72309324008
- 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
- eso1029d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1029d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-06-21T14:33:39+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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