Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
esahubble_heic2007a April 24th, 2020
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2007a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic2007a
- Subject Category
- C.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 2014, NGC 2020
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and STScI
- Release Date
- 2020-04-24T13:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2007a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Orange, Cyan, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- g, H-alpha + NII, OIII, I
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 657, 502, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.0972941061, -67.7011740592
- Reference Dimension
- 17043.0, 11710.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8521.5, 5855.0
- Scale
- -1.1118347203e-05, 1.1118347203e-05
- Rotation
- 23.979999999999986
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WWT DSS based: lack of available FITS error: +-0.4 arcsec WCS-AVM tagging by: ESA /Hubble, Mahdi Zamani Pub. version enlargement ratio to original: 4.261015
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- 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
- heic2007a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2007a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-04-20T16:10:28+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
