The birth of a monster star seen at different wavelengths of light
eso_eso1331d July 10th, 2013
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE
This composite shows the region around the massive star-forming region SDC 335.579-0.292 seen using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and ALMA. The Spitzer view is at infrared wavelengths (3.6, 4.5 and 8.0 microns) and the ALMA view is at wavelengths around three millimetres. The yellow blob at the centre of the ALMA images is a stellar womb with over 500 times the mass than the Sun — the largest ever seen in the Milky Way. The embryonic star within is hungrily feeding on the material that is racing inwards. It is expected to give birth to a very brilliant star with up to 100 times the mass of the Sun.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1331d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1331d
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- SDC 335.579-0.292
- Credits
- ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE
- Release Date
- 2013-07-10T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1331d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
- Instrument
- IRAC (Spitzer), IRAC (Spitzer), IRAC (Spitzer), None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Millimeter
- Bandpass
- Channel 4, Channel 2, Channel 1, Band 3
- Central Wavelength
- 8000, 4500, 3600, 3200000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 4096.0, 1244.0
- 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
- eso1331d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1331d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-07-05T17:55:26+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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