Homeless star in 30 Doradus (ground-based image)

Esahubble_heic1008c_1024

esahubble_heic1008c May 11th, 2010

Credit: ESOAcknowledgments: J. Alves (Calar Alto, Spain), B. Vandame, and Y. Beletski (ESO)Processing by B. Fosbury (ST-ECF)

Within this image is the runaway heavyweight star, called 30 Dor #016. It is 90 times more massive than the Sun and is travelling at more than 400 000 kilometres an hour from its home. The young star, only one million to two million years old, may have travelled about 375 light-years from its suspected home in bright star cluster R136. Nestled in the core of 30 Doradus, R136 is one of the most massive young star clusters in nearby galaxies, containing several stars topping 100 solar masses each. 30 Doradus, also called the Tarantula Nebula, resides roughly 170 000 light-years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image was taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1008c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
30 Doradus R136 Tarantula Nebula
Subject - Local Universe
Star
Nebula
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 38m 13.9s
DEC = -69° 8’ 20.0”
Orientation
North is 32.7° CCW
Field of View
17.7 x 13.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Dorado

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (H-alpha) -
Orange MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (Oiii) -
Green MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (V) -
Blue MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (B) -
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ID
heic1008c
Subject Category
C.3   C.4  
Subject Name
30 Doradus, R136, Tarantula Nebula
Credits
ESOAcknowledgments: J. Alves (Calar Alto, Spain), B. Vandame, and Y. Beletski (ESO)Processing by B. Fosbury (ST-ECF)
Release Date
2010-05-11T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1008c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
Instrument
WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
Color Assignment
Red, Orange, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
H-alpha, Oiii, V, B
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
84.5577225184, -69.1389019469
Reference Dimension
2850.0, 2109.0
Reference Pixel
1425.0, 1054.5
Scale
-0.000103233857184, 0.000103233857184
Rotation
32.659999999999989
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic1008c
Metadata Date
2010-05-07T14:32:53+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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