VST images the Lagoon Nebula
eso_eso1403a January 22nd, 2014
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters. This image is a tiny part of just one of eleven public surveys of the sky now in progress using ESO telescopes. Together these are providing a vast legacy of publicly available data for the global astronomical community.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1403a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1403a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8
- Credits
- ESO/VPHAS+ team
- Release Date
- 2014-01-22T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1403a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Cyan, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- r, H-alpha, i, g, u
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 270.904114, -24.386937
- Reference Dimension
- 16358.0, 11184.0
- Reference Pixel
- 10052.9980206, 3609.32220681
- Scale
- -5.921958e-05, 5.921958e-05
- Rotation
- -0.14610679410
- 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
- eso1403a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1403a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-01-16T10:03:13+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
