ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery
eso_eso1809a March 7th, 2018
Credit: ESO/H. Drass/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Hacar
This spectacular and unusual image shows part of the famous Orion Nebula, a star formation region lying about 1350 light-years from Earth. It combines a mosaic of millimetre wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30-metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shown in blue. The group of bright blue-white stars at the left is the Trapezium Cluster — made up of hot young stars that are only a few million years old.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1809a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1809a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Orion Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/H. Drass/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Hacar
- Release Date
- 2018-03-07T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1809a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- IRAM 30m Telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- None, Band 3, HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Orange, Cyan, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Millimeter, Millimeter, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- -, 93 GHz, Ks, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 3000000, 3217589, 2146, 1620, 1258
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8305655966, -5.25207172625
- Reference Dimension
- 11589.0, 2440.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5794.5, 1220.0
- Scale
- -2.96376999136e-05, 2.96376999136e-05
- Rotation
- -103.32000000000004
- 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
- eso1809a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1809a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2017-08-16T21:10:34+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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