Extracts from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula
eso_eso1033b August 11th, 2010
Credit: ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
This composite image shows extracts from a near-infrared VISTA image of the spectacular 30 Doradus star-forming region, also called the Tarantula Nebula. This infrared image, made with ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, is from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey. The project will scan a vast area — 184 square degrees of the sky (corresponding to almost one thousand times the apparent area of the full Moon), including our nearby neighbouring galaxies the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1033b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1033b
- Subject Category
- C.4
- Subject Name
- 30 Doradus, NGC 2070
- Credits
- ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- Release Date
- 2010-08-11T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1033b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Approximate distance in light years from AJ (http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/191/1/160/fulltext)
- 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
- K, J, Y
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 4999.0, 4999.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- eso1033b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1033b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-08-06T17:24:44+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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