The Lupus 3 dark cloud and associated hot young stars
eso_eso1303a January 16th, 2013
Credit: ESO/F. Comeron
This evocative image shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. This picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and is the best image ever taken of this little-known object.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1303a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1303a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.3
- Subject Name
- Lupus 3
- Credits
- ESO/F. Comeron
- Release Date
- 2013-01-16T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1303a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, Rc, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 242.400328, -39.04979
- Reference Dimension
- 8828.0, 8607.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3109.85826671, 4835.9144993
- Scale
- -6.613464e-05, 6.613464e-05
- Rotation
- 0.11076996288
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1303a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1303a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-11-08T09:36:34+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
