MUSE view of the surroundings of a hidden neutron star in the Small Magellanic Cloud
eso_eso1810c April 5th, 2018
Credit: ESO/F. Vogt et al.
This new picture from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile shows how an elusive missing object was found amid a complex tangle of gaseous filaments in one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The wisps of gas forming the supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 show up in blue, but the red ring in the MUSE data, revealing glowing neon and oxygen forms, is perfectly centred on an X-ray source — an isolated neutron star with a weak magnetic field, the first identified outside the Milky Way.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1810c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso1810c
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.9
- Subject Name
- 1E 0102.2-7219
- Credits
- ESO/F. Vogt et al.
- Release Date
- 2018-04-05T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1810c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, OI, OIII, V, R, I, NeI
- Central Wavelength
- 495.9, 777.4, 500.7, 547, 634, 879, 640.2
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 16.0129623134, -72.0311448626
- Reference Dimension
- 909.0, 909.0
- Reference Pixel
- 454.0, 454.0
- Scale
- -1.85196154268e-05, 1.85196154268e-05
- Rotation
- 0.039999999999999994
- 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
- eso1810c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1810c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-03T11:28:52+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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