Hubble Celebrates its 31st anniversary with a magnificent view of AG Carinae
esahubble_heic2105a April 23rd, 2021
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty. The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic2105a
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.4
- Subject Name
- AG Carinae, V* AG Car
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and STScI
- Release Date
- 2021-04-23T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105a/
- 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, Cyan, Orange, Red
- Band
- Ultraviolet, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- UV, Strmgren y, H-alpha + NII, i
- Central Wavelength
- 275, 547, 657, 845
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 164.04815873218, -60.4535634456
- Reference Dimension
- 3687.0, 2276.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1897.69815619766, 1160.26592221073
- Scale
- -1.101835e-05, 1.101835e-05
- Rotation
- 49.90435689547
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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
- heic2105a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2105a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-04-14T07:13:30-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
