Two very different glowing gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud
eso_eso1335a August 7th, 2013
Credit: ESO
ESO's Very Large Telescope has captured a detailed view of a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. This sharp image reveals two glowing clouds of gas. NGC 2014 (right) is irregularly shaped and red and its neighbour, NGC 2020, is round and blue. These odd and very different forms were both sculpted by powerful stellar winds from extremely hot newborn stars that also radiate into the gas, causing it to glow brightly.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1335a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1335a
- Subject Category
- C.4
- Subject Name
- Henize 55, Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 2014, NGC 2020
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2013-08-07T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1335a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Blue, Red, Orange, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- [OIII], B, H-alpha, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.100256, -67.687893
- Reference Dimension
- 3418.0, 3418.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2828.01434045, 1593.65076431
- Scale
- -3.498251e-05, 3.498251e-05
- Rotation
- -0.12448373419
- 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
- eso1335a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1335a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-05-23T16:28:45+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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