Crab Nebula
noirlab_noao-m1guvenen3 June 26th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Yoshikawa Yoshihiko/Blythe Guvenen
Like few other celestial objects, the Crab nebula displays the death of a star in all of its beauty. Both colorful and convoluted filaments of gas expand violently away from the origin of the explosion. The cataclysmic end for this star was observed in 1054 AD by any of humanity that cared to look skyward- it could be seen even during the day for months! In the heart of the nebula lies the dense collapsed remnant of the star- a pulsar. Weighing in at the mass of the sun- but only six miles across- this ball of condensed matter spins 30 times a second and releases tremendous amounts of energy. At a distance of 7000 light years this explosion went off safely so that now we can observe this 10 light year cloud of glowing gas (I often describe this as "star guts" to the public.)Of the two stars in the very center of the nebula, the one on the bottom is the pulsar. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m1guvenen3/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-m1guvenen3
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Crab Nebula
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Yoshikawa Yoshihiko/Blythe Guvenen
- Release Date
- 2014-06-26T08:43:48
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m1guvenen3/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Luminosity, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, G, Broad Band, H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 438, 475, 555, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8354632878, 21.9953407424
- Reference Dimension
- 1536.0, 1024.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1310.97967529, 643.627094269
- Scale
- -0.000251564520761, 0.000250175291945
- Rotation
- -178.01808040035
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-m1guvenen3
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m1guvenen3.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:24:31+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
