A star that should not exist
eso_eso1132a August 31st, 2011
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
At the centre of this picture is a very unremarkable looking faint star, too faint to be seen through all but the largest amateur telescopes. This ancient star, in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), is called SDSS J102915+172927 and has been found to have the lowest amount of elements heavier than helium of all stars yet studied. It has a mass smaller than that of the Sun and is probably more than 13 billion years old.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1132a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1132a
- Subject Category
- B.3
- Subject Name
- SDSS J102915+172927
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2011-08-31T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1132a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, Pseudogreen (B+R), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 157.308607007, 17.4868896405
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1280.0
- Reference Pixel
- 661.0, 618.0
- Scale
- -0.000202982363216, 0.000202982363216
- Rotation
- -1.57649579027
- 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
- eso1132a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1132a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-23T13:49:39+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
