Cosmic dust clouds in Messier 78
eso_eso1219a May 2nd, 2012
Credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2
This image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orion’s belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. The submillimetre-wavelength observations, made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown here in orange, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show astronomers where new stars are being formed. They are overlaid on a view of the region in visible light.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1219a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1219a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- M 78, Messier 78, NGC 2068
- Credits
- ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2012-05-02T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1219a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Millimeter
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 86.694757, 0.01378
- Reference Dimension
- 2287.0, 3493.0
- Reference Pixel
- 993.994274549, 1497.93336414
- Scale
- -0.00027978839, 0.00027978839
- Rotation
- 0.03871640876
- 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
- eso1219a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1219a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-04-24T15:21:11+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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