Herbig-Haro Objects 76 and 77
noirlab_noirlab2515c April 24th, 2025
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Kosari (NSF NOIRLab)
A close-up of two Herbig-Haro (HH) objects found in the Circinus West molecular cloud: HH 76 (above center of image) and HH 77 (lower left). HH objects are glowing red patches of nebulosity commonly found near newborn stars. They form when fast-moving gas thrown out by stars smashes into slower-moving gas in the surrounding molecular cloud or interstellar medium. This image was taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) — one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world — mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2515c/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2515c
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- HH 77
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Kosari (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2025-04-24T14:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2515c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- N662, I, I, g, g
- Central Wavelength
- 662, 784, 784, 473, 473
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 225.1653668979657, -63.09242105258153
- Reference Dimension
- 1080.0, 1080.0
- Reference Pixel
- 540.0, 540.0
- Scale
- -8.127090507278439e-05, 8.127090507278439e-05
- Rotation
- 0.12000000000000026
- 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
- noirlab2515c
- Resource URL
- https://storage.noirlab.edu/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2515c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-01T23:23:58+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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