The expansion of Eta Carinae debris
esahubble_opo9623a June 10th, 1996
Credit: Jon Morse (University of Colorado), and NASA/ESA
A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9623a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9623a
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.4
- Subject Name
- Eta Carinae
- Credits
- Jon Morse (University of Colorado), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-06-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9623a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- R, Near-UV
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 410
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 161.265152109, -59.6841363257
- Reference Dimension
- 900.0, 900.0
- Reference Pixel
- 450.0, 450.0
- Scale
- -7.8058691222e-06, 7.8058691222e-06
- Rotation
- -0.80000000000000049
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9623a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9623a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:46:36+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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