Wide-Field View of AG Carinae
esahubble_heic2105b April 23rd, 2021
Credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2.Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Pictured here is the region of the sky around the star AG Carinae, which is positioned in the centre of the image. The giant star is featured in the latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image, and is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self destruction. 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 nearert star, Alpha Centauri.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic2105b
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.4
- Subject Name
- AG Carinae
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2.Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2021-04-23T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, I
- Central Wavelength
- 649, 825
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 164.0467339030007, -60.448275345538576
- Reference Dimension
- 13208.0, 9991.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6604.0, 4995.5
- Scale
- -0.0002801446607486585, 0.0002801446607486585
- Rotation
- 1.9200000000000008
- 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
- heic2105b
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2105b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-04-18T10:58:51+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
