The Cygnus Loop

esahubble_opo9511a February 20th, 1995

Credit: Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the 'Cygnus Loop.' Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave from a stellar cataclysm - a supernova explosion - which occurred about 15, 000 years ago.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9511a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Cygnus Loop • NGC 6960 • SNR 074.0-08.5
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Supernova Remnant

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 20h 56m 19.2s; DEC = 30° 22’ 29.2”
Orientation: North is 22.9° CW
Field of View: 2.5 x 2.5 arcminutes
Constellation: Cygnus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (Sii)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (H-alpha)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (Oiii)	-

ID: opo9511a
Subject Category: B.4.1.4
Subject Name: Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, SNR 074.0-08.5
Credits: Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1995-02-20T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9511a/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: Sii, H-alpha, Oiii
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 314.080139022, 30.3747801425
Reference Dimension: 1506.0, 1525.0

Reference Pixel: 753.0, 762.5
Scale: -2.74885896471e-05, 2.74885896471e-05
Rotation: -22.860000000000017
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9511a

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9511a.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:43:48+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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