The Flame Nebula region as seen with APEX
eso_eso2201b January 4th, 2022
Credit: ESO/Th. Stanke
This images shows the Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves. The image is based on observations conducted with the SuperCam instrument on the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) on Chile’s Chajnantor Plateau. The Flame Nebula is the large feature on the left. The smaller feature on the right is the reflection nebula NGC 2023. To the top right of NGC 2023, the iconic Horsehead Nebula seems to emerge heroically from the “flames”. The three objects are part of the Orion cloud, a giant gas structure located between 1300 and 1600 light-years away. The different colours indicate the velocity of the gas. The Flame Nebula and its surroundings are moving away from us, with the red clouds in the background receding faster than the yellow ones in the foreground.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2201b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- ID
- eso2201b
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- Flame Nebula, NGC 2023
- Credits
- ESO/Th. Stanke
- Release Date
- 2022-01-04T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2201b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
- Instrument
- SuperCam
- Color Assignment
- Orange
- Band
- Millimeter
- Bandpass
- CO(3-2)
- Central Wavelength
- 867204
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 85.392537096, -2.12085406102
- Reference Dimension
- 650.0, 318.0
- Reference Pixel
- 325.0, 159.0
- Scale
- -0.00167237137279, 0.00167237137279
- Rotation
- 86.900000000000148
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2201b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2201b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-09-30T16:20:07+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
