The Prawn Nebula from ESO's VST (wide crop)
eso_eso1340b September 18th, 2013
Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: Martin Pugh
The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, this may well be the sharpest picture ever taken of this object. It shows clumps of hot new-born stars nestled in among the clouds that make up the nebula. This image also contains information from images of this object taken by Martin Pugh.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1340b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1340b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- IC 4628
- Credits
- ESO. Acknowledgement: Martin Pugh
- Release Date
- 2013-09-18T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1340b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- None, None, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Yellow, Cyan, Orange, Green, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- [SII], [OII], H-alpha, I, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 254.331673353, -40.5292501151
- Reference Dimension
- 24141.0, 19261.0
- Reference Pixel
- 12070.5, 9630.5
- Scale
- -5.9442688332e-05, 5.9442688332e-05
- Rotation
- -0.16000000000000159
- 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
- eso1340b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1340b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-22T14:21:42.914784
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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