The star formation region NGC 2035 imaged by the ESO Very Large Telescope
eso_eso1348a November 27th, 2013
Credit: ESO
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the closest galaxies to our own. Astronomers have now used the power of the ESO’s Very Large Telescope to explore NGC 2035, one of its lesser known regions, in great detail. This new image shows clouds of gas and dust where hot new stars are being born and are sculpting their surroundings into odd shapes. But the image also shows the effects of stellar death — filaments created by a supernova explosion (left).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1348a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1348a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 2035
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2013-11-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1348a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Cyan, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, R, [OIII], V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.879691, -67.584365
- Reference Dimension
- 3438.0, 3445.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2344.98204068, 1792.71552592
- Scale
- -3.511238e-05, 3.511238e-05
- Rotation
- 0.04074211727
- 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
- eso1348a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1348a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-05-17T16:42:06+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
