A glowing pool of light
esahubble_opo9839a November 5th, 1998
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA/ESA)
NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star, is known to amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere as the 'Eight-Burst' or the 'Southern Ring' Nebula.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9839a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9839a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 3132, Southern Ring Nebula
- Credits
- Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA/ESA)
- Release Date
- 1998-11-05T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9839a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 151.757259, -40.4350252
- Reference Dimension
- 935.0, 700.0
- Reference Pixel
- 468.5, 351.0
- Scale
- 2.78304294934e-05, 2.77026382011e-05
- Rotation
- 109
- 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
- opo9839a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9839a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:52:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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