Hubble Image of Stellar Bow Shock (2 of 4)

Esahubble_opo0903c_1024

esahubble_opo0903c January 7th, 2009

Credit: NASA, ESA and R. Sahai (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Resembling a comet streaking across the sky this speedy star is plowing through a region of dense interstellar gas and creating a brilliant arrowhead structure and a trailing tail of glowing gas. The star is one of 14 young runaway stars spotted by the Advanced Camera for Surveys between October 2005 and July 2006.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0903c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, 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
Stellar Bow Shocks
Subject - Milky Way
Star

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Blue Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Blue
Blue
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ID
opo0903c
Subject Category
B.3  
Subject Name
Stellar Bow Shocks
Credits
NASA, ESA and R. Sahai (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Release Date
2009-01-07T18:20:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0903c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, ACS
Color Assignment
Blue, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical
Bandpass
I, V
Central Wavelength
814, 606
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
341.0, 342.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
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
opo0903c
Metadata Date
2008-12-29T11:24:46-05:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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