Gas Plume Near the Edge of the Orion Nebula

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esahubble_opo9229a December 16th, 1992

Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "true color" mosaic image of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode). Hubble shows a wealth of detail never seen before in the nebula. New features include: elongated objects oriented on the brightest stars in this region (which are located just off the edge of the picture); rapidly expanding plumes of material around young stars; and protoplanetary disks. This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of three abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen. The images were taken August 13 and 14, 1991. The image is 1.29 light-years across.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9229a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
M 42 Messier 42 NGC 1976 Orion Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Star Formation
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 35m 16.5s
DEC = -5° 24’ 58.9”
Orientation
North is 114.1° CW
Field of View
2.7 x 2.6 arcminutes
Constellation
Orion

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC1) Optical -
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ID
opo9229a
Subject Category
B.4.1.2  
Subject Name
M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula
Credits
C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
Release Date
1992-12-16T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9229a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC1
Color Assignment
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
83.81893459, -5.41635532818
Reference Dimension
2448.0, 2369.0
Reference Pixel
1224.0, 1184.5
Scale
-1.83420047756e-05, 1.83420047756e-05
Rotation
-114.09999999999997
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
opo9229a
Metadata Date
2015-10-08T16:55:14+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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