Astronomers Spot Evidence for Colliding Planet Embryos in Famous Star Cluster

noirlab_gemini0707b November 14th, 2007

Credit: Inseok Song/Digital Sky Survey, inset: Gemini Observatory/Lynette Cook

Color composite image of the Pleiades star cluster and surrounding region produced by Inseok Song of the Spitzer Science Center. The image was created by combining B, R and I band images from individual second generation Digital Sky Survey images into blue, green and red image layers, respectively. The location of HD 23514 is shown by the yellow arrow. Inset artwork (lower right) is same as in Figure 1.

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Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini0707b/

Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HD 23514 • Pleiades

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 3h 47m 55.3s; DEC = 24° 27’ 44.6”
Orientation: North is 0.2° CW
Field of View: 2.8 x 2.8 degrees
Constellation: Taurus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (I)	825.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	479.5 nm

ID: gemini0707b
Subject Category
Subject Name: HD 23514, Pleiades
Credits: Inseok Song/Digital Sky Survey, inset: Gemini Observatory/Lynette Cook

Release Date: 2007-11-14T20:00:00
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Reference Url: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini0707b/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey, Digitized Sky Survey, Digitized Sky Survey
Instrument: None, None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, B
Central Wavelength: 825, 649, 479.5

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Dataset ID: None, None, None
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 56.9805253622, 24.462388867
Reference Dimension: 4405.0, 4405.0

Reference Pixel: 1303.16358312, 3143.56284078
Scale: -0.000624929411707, 0.000624811448859
Rotation: -0.19509629433844
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): NSF's NOIRLab
URL: https://noirlab.edu
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City: Tucson
State/Province: AZ

Postal Code: 85719
Country: USA
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: NSF's NOIRLab
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Resource ID: gemini0707b

Resource URL: http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/gemini0707b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2024-10-02T11:52:28.268390
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