Cosmic 'Winter' Wonderland
chandra_645 December 19th, 2016
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al; Optical: UKIRT; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This composite image captures the star formation region called NGC 6357 located within the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays from Chandra and ROSAT (purple) reveal hundreds of point sources, which are the young stars in NGC 6357, as well as diffuse X-ray emission from hot gas. These have been combined with infrared data from Spitzer (orange) and optical data from the SuperCosmos survey (blue) to complete this spectacular cosmic vista.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc6357/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 645
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6357
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al; Optical: UKIRT; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Release Date
- 2016-12-19
- Lightyears
- 5,500
- Redshift
- 5,500
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc6357/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, UKIRT, Spitzer
- Instrument
- ACIS, -, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Blue, Orange
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- X-ray, R-band, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, 660, 5800
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 261.2802673, -34.3174881
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 2850.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1426.0
- Scale
- 0.000204196, 0.00020419572
- Rotation
- 0.60
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- ngc6357.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc6357/ngc6357.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-12-19T14:43:37-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
