ALMA Returns to Boomerang Nebula
nrao_Gallery_nrao17cb21 May 26th, 2017
Credit: (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Composite image of the Boomerang Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. ALMA observations (orange) showing the hourglass-shaped outflow, which is embedded inside a roughly round ultra-cold outflow. The hourglass outflow stretches more than three trillion kilometers from end to end (about 21,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth), and is the result of a jet that is being fired by the central star, sweeping up the inner regions of the ultra-cold outflow like a snow-plow. The ultra-cold outflow is about 10 times bigger. The ALMA data are shown on top of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope (blue).
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=6540
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- Gallery_nrao17cb21
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3.
- Subject Name
- Boomerang Nebula, nrao17cb21
- Credits
- (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
- Release Date
- 2017-05-26
- Lightyears
- 5,000
- Redshift
- 5,000
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=6540
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ALMA, ALMA, HST
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- red, yellow, blue
- Band
- radio, radio, optical
- Bandpass
- 7, 7, -
- Central Wavelength
- 8.6696e+5, 8.6696e+5, -
- Start Time
- 2014-06-14T23:46:53.807999, -
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 191.1916688, -54.52043694
- Reference Dimension
- 1170, 1170
- Reference Pixel
- 585, 585
- Scale
- 6.7624795709965E-6, 6.7377167798998E-6
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nrao17cb21a.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-05-09T10:56:57-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
