XMM-Newton (ultraviolet) Image of the Crab Nebula
esahubble_potw1720e May 15th, 2017
Credit: ESA
ESAs XMM-Newton telescope observed the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6500 light-years from Earth, in the ultraviolet.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1720e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- potw1720e
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.9.1 B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- Crab Nebula
- Credits
- ESA
- Release Date
- 2017-05-15T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1720e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- XMM-Newton
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Blue
- Band
- Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.6334511837, 22.0151236394
- Reference Dimension
- 5290.0, 5290.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2645.0, 2645.0
- Scale
- -2.78194934801e-05, 2.78194934801e-05
- Rotation
- 0.49999999999999961
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- 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
- potw1720e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/potw1720e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-05-08T19:01:25-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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