Close-up of the drama of star formation (annotated)
eso_eso1109c March 16th, 2011
Credit: ESO/Sergey Stepanenko
This very detailed image of the star-forming region NGC 6729 from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the dramatic effects of very young stars on the dust and gas from which they were born. The baby stars are invisible in this picture, being hidden behind dust clouds at the upper left of the picture, but material they are ejecting is crashing into the surroundings at speeds of that can be as high as one million kilometres per hour. This picture shows the probable directions of the ejected material and indicates the positions of the Herbig-Haro objects (marked as HH) where ejected material is creating glowing shockwaves.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1109c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- eso1109c
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.2 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Herbig–Haro object, NGC 6729
- Credits
- ESO/Sergey Stepanenko
- Release Date
- 2011-03-16T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1109c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, SII
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 285.3927045, -37.00541629
- Reference Dimension
- 2139.0, 2140.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1093.4189512, 1071.46774231
- Scale
- -5.597952e-05, 5.597952e-05
- Rotation
- -0.00039845993
- 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
- eso1109c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1109c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-03-10T16:29:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
