IC 2944, nicknamed the Running Chicken Nebula
eso_eso1135a September 21st, 2011
Credit: ESO
This new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope shows the Running Chicken Nebula, a cloud of gas and newborn stars that lies around 6500 light-years away from us in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Officially called IC 2944, or the Lambda Centauri Nebula, its strange nickname comes from the bird-like shape of its brightest region. The star Lambda Centauri itself lies just outside the field of view.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1135a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1135a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- IC 2944
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2011-09-21T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1135a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 174.585148, -63.372902
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1158.0
- Reference Pixel
- 806.253229894, 888.314910251
- Scale
- -0.00044288578, 0.00044288578
- Rotation
- -0.13708403278
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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
- eso1135a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1135a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-11T10:43:44+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
