The rich region around the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
eso_eso1816a May 30th, 2018
Credit: ESO
Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. This image from VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile shows the region and its rich surroundings in great detail. It reveals a cosmic landscape of star clusters, glowing gas clouds and the scattered remains of supernova explosions.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1816a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1816a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4 C.4
- Subject Name
- Tarantula Nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2018-05-30T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1816a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Green, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- g, g, r, r, i, H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 480, 480, 625, 625, 770, 659
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.7516797916, -69.4417113845
- Reference Dimension
- 16655.0, 16719.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8327.5, 8359.5
- Scale
- -5.94553783266e-05, 5.94553783266e-05
- Rotation
- 0.020000000000000004
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 4.17905 0.00024846699879585909
- 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
- eso1816a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1816a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-03-14T09:04:01+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
