A Grand View of the Birth of 'Hefty' Stars - 30 Doradus Nebula Montage
esahubble_opo9933d September 29th, 1999
Credit: NASA/ESA/Nolan Walborn ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.) and Rodolfo Barba (La Plata Observatory, La Plata, Argentina)
This picture, taken in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2), represents a sweeping view of the 30 Doradus Nebula. But Hubble's infrared camera - the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) - has probed deeper into smaller regions of this nebula to unveil the stormy birth of massive stars. The montages of images in the upper left and upper right represent this deeper view. Each square in the montages is 15.5 light-years (19 arcseconds) across.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9933d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- opo9933d
- Subject Category
- B.5
- Subject Name
- 30 Doradus Nebula, Tarantula Nebula
- Credits
- NASA/ESA/Nolan Walborn ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.) and Rodolfo Barba (La Plata Observatory, La Plata, Argentina)
- Release Date
- 1999-09-29T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9933d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- None, None, None
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.6837144832, -69.100728569
- Reference Dimension
- 1767.0, 1331.0
- Reference Pixel
- 884.5, 666.5
- Scale
- -2.76477593562e-05, 2.76477593562e-05
- Rotation
- 38.159999999999961
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9933d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9933d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:54:54+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
