Hubble Camera Resumes Science Operation With Picture Of 'Butterfly' In Space
esahubble_opo9707a March 14th, 1997
Credit: Massimo Stiavelli (STScI), and NASA/ESA
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2) is back at work, capturing this black-and-white image of the 'butterfly wing'-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2, 000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros. It represents the spectacular 'last gasp' of a binary star system at the nebula's center.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9707a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9707a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 07068-0043, NGC 2346
- Credits
- Massimo Stiavelli (STScI), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-03-14T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9707a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 656, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 107.3465655, -0.8053472
- Reference Dimension
- 1371.0, 1407.0
- Reference Pixel
- 686.5, 704.5
- Scale
- 2.76094425288e-05, 2.77375083365e-05
- Rotation
- -37.3
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo9707a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9707a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:47:48+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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