30 Doradus in Infrared

Esahubble_opo0932d_1024

esahubble_opo0932d December 15th, 2009

Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee

This image is the mostdetailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0932d/

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
Subject - Local Universe
Nebula
Esahubble_opo0932d_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 38m 47.5s
DEC = -69° 5’ 50.5”
Orientation
North is 14.3° CCW
Field of View
2.0 x 2.0 arcminutes
Constellation
Dorado

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (H) 1.6 µm
Cyan Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (J) 1.1 µm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Cyan
Esahubble_opo0932d_1280
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ID
opo0932d
Subject Category
C.4  
Subject Name
30 Doradus
Credits
NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
Release Date
2009-12-15T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0932d/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFC3, WFC3
Color Assignment
Orange, Cyan
Band
Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
H, J
Central Wavelength
1600, 1100
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
84.6978916, -69.0973737
Reference Dimension
2981.0, 2981.0
Reference Pixel
1491.5, 1491.5
Scale
-1.09992e-05, 1.0999235e-05
Rotation
14.33
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
opo0932d
Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:41:02.115586
Metadata Version
1.1
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