A massive laboratory
esahubble_heic2004a March 18th, 2020
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens
This image shows a region of space called LHA 120-N150. It is a substructure of the gigantic Tarantula Nebula. The latter is the largest known stellar nursery in the local Universe. The nebula is situated more than 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring dwarf irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2004a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic2004a
- Subject Category
- C.4
- Subject Name
- Large Magellanic Cloud, LHA 120-N150, LMC, Tarantula Nebula
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens
- Release Date
- 2020-03-18T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2004a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, I, I, V, V
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 814, 814, 555, 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.4262772356, -68.7663000658
- Reference Dimension
- 4066.0, 3518.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2033.0, 1759.0
- Scale
- -1.1014203069e-05, 1.1014203069e-05
- Rotation
- 179.42000000000016
- 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
- heic2004a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2004a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-01-09T19:18:32+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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