Wide-field view of the Serpens Nebula (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic1819c October 31st, 2018
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
This image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the area around the Serpens Nebula. The Serpens star-forming region is a compact region of star formation. At a distance of about 1300 light-years it is close enough for detailed, spatially-resolved studies of its individual young stellar objects.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1819c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1819c
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- Serpens nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
- Release Date
- 2018-10-31T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1819c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, R, R, i
- Central Wavelength
- 797.5, 660, 660, 797.5
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 277.465225538, 1.26375435516
- Reference Dimension
- 7606.0, 7425.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3803.0, 3712.5
- Scale
- -0.000279964836373, 0.000279964836373
- Rotation
- 0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1819c
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1819c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-10-24T17:46:38+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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