Nearby dust clouds in the Milky Way
esahubble_opo0613a April 4th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Acknowledgment: P. McCullough (STScI)
The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust "bunnies", those pesky dust balls that frolic under beds and behind furniture. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed similar dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust, however, is not a nuisance. It is a concentration of elements that are responsible for the formation of stars in our galaxy and throughout the universe. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust are called Bok globules, and they are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula and star-forming region, NGC 281. The globules are named after astronomer Bart Bok, who proposed their existence in the 1940's.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/opo0613a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0613a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.3.2
- Subject Name
- bok globules, NGC 281
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Acknowledgment: P. McCullough (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2006-04-04T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/opo0613a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4635
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Orange, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, V, H-alpha, R
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 555, 658, 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 13.265526, 56.644759
- Reference Dimension
- 2873.0, 3885.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1437.5, 1943.5
- Scale
- 1.3894098037e-05, 1.38933645396e-05
- Rotation
- 113.00000000000001
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo0613a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/opo0613a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-03-16T14:14:28-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
