Hubble image of the surroundings of the young star HL Tauri

eso_eso1436d November 6th, 2014

Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and shows the tumultuous region around HL Tauri, a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1436d/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HL Tauri
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk > Protoplanetary

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 4h 31m 38.4s; DEC = 18° 13’ 14.1”
Orientation: North is 29.8° CCW
Field of View: 3.4 x 3.3 arcminutes
Constellation: Taurus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (R)	-
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (H-alpha)	-

ID: eso1436d
Subject Category: B.3.7.2.1
Subject Name: HL Tauri
Credits: ESA/Hubble and NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Release Date: 2014-11-06T13:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1436d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS, ACS
Color Assignment: Cyan, Orange

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, H-alpha
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 67.9099680002, 18.2205822638
Reference Dimension: 4135.0, 4009.0

Reference Pixel: 2067.0, 2004.0
Scale: -1.38962298451e-05, 1.38962298451e-05
Rotation: 29.839999999999996
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org/
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Telephone
Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID: eso
Resource ID: eso1436d

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1436d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-10-28T12:55:24+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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