NGC 604 (NIRCam Image)
stsci_2024-110a March 9th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
The bright orange streaks in this image signify the presence of carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. As you travel further from the immediate cavities of dust where the star is forming, the deeper red signifies molecular hydrogen. This cooler gas is a prime environment for star formation. Ionized hydrogen from ultraviolet radiation from appears as a white and blue ghostly glow.
NGC 604 is located in the Triangulum galaxy (M33), 2.73 million light-years away from Earth. It provides an opportunity for astronomers to study a high concentration of very young, massive stars in a nearby region.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-110
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
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- ID
- 2024-110a
- Subject Category
- C.4.12
- Subject Name
- NGC 604
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2024-03-09T03:30:00
- Lightyears
- 2,740,000
- Redshift
- 2,740,000
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-110
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb
- Instrument
- NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 900, 1870, 2000, 3350, 4440, 4700
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 23.62764594593, 30.80336755646
- Reference Dimension
- 4159.00, 3374.00
- Reference Pixel
- 4828.52238568223, 1528.21767985408
- Scale
- -0.00000867185, 0.00000867185
- Rotation
- -65.30217682989
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 645.59 610.51 2468.08 2046.30 140.02 201.65 414.49 418.15 1004.14 766.98 3918.42 2666.89 66.89 873.67 144.50 3128.68 610.31 356.60 2316.06 1024.89 Center Pixel Coordinates: 2079.50 23.64069352677 1687.00 30.78228487922
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- https://www.stsci.edu/
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-24110a-f-4159x3374.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-110/STSCI-J-24110a-f-4159x3374.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-27T10:41:04-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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