Southern Crab Nebula

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esahubble_opo9932c August 24th, 1999

Credit: Romano Corradi, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.; Ulisse Munari, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova-Asiago, Italy; HugoSchwarz, Nordic Optical Telescope, Canarias, Spain; and NASA/ESA

A tempestuous relationship between an unlikely pair of stars may have created an oddly shaped, gaseous nebula that resembles an hourglass nestled within an hourglass. This image shows the small nebula that is embedded in the centre of the larger one (you can see the whole nebula by searching for opo9932a in the search form).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9932c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
IRAS 14085-5112 Southern Crab Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula
Esahubble_opo9932c_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 14h 11m 52.1s
DEC = -51° 26’ 24.4”
Orientation
North is 2.3° CCW
Field of View
0.2 x 0.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Centaurus
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ID
opo9932c
Subject Category
B.4  
Subject Name
IRAS 14085-5112, Southern Crab Nebula
Credits
Romano Corradi, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.; Ulisse Munari, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova-Asiago, Italy; HugoSchwarz, Nordic Optical Telescope, Canarias, Spain; and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1999-08-24T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9932c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2008/25/aa9212-07/aa9212-07.html
Facility
Instrument
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
212.966967446, -51.4401021655
Reference Dimension
577.0, 593.0
Reference Pixel
288.5, 291.5
Scale
-6.32786967149e-06, 6.32786967149e-06
Rotation
2.2599999999999985
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
opo9932c
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:54:51+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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