Hubble catches scattered light from the Boomerang Nebula

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esahubble_opo0525a September 13th, 2005

Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope caught the Boomerang Nebula in images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in early 2005. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes of matter that are being ejected from a central star. Each lobe of the nebula is nearly one light-year in length, making the total length of the nebula half as long as the distance from our Sun to our nearest neighbors - the alpha Centauri stellar system, located roughly 4 light-years away. The Boomerang Nebula resides 5,000 light-years from Earth. Hubble's sharp view is able to resolve patterns and ripples in the nebula very close to the central star that are not visible from the ground.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0525a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Boomerang Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Planetary
Esahubble_opo0525a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 12h 44m 46.1s
DEC = -54° 31’ 13.4”
Orientation
North is 153.7° CCW
Field of View
1.2 x 1.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Centaurus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Colour = Polarisation
Spectrum_base
Pseudocolor
Esahubble_opo0525a_1280
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ID
opo0525a
Subject Category
B.4.1.3  
Subject Name
Boomerang Nebula
Credits
NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA
Release Date
2005-09-13T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0525a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/560/1/236/53957.text.html
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Optical
Bandpass
V
Central Wavelength
606
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
C
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
191.1920319, -54.5203767
Reference Dimension
1456.0, 1351.0
Reference Pixel
729.0, 676.5
Scale
1.38825180081e-05, 1.39032857029e-05
Rotation
153.74000000000018
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
WCS info from NASA/Hubble
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
opo0525a
Metadata Date
2005-08-23T15:08:02-04:00
Metadata Version
1.0
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