Pebble-Size Particles May Jump-Start Planet Formation
nrao_NRAO_Gallery051
Credit: S. Schnee, et al.; B. Saxton, B. Kent (NRAO/AUI/NSF); We acknowledge the use of NASA's SkyView Facility located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Radio/optical composite of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex showing the OMC-2/3 star-forming filament. GBT data is shown in orange. Uncommonly large dust grains there may kick-start planet formation.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/pebble-size-particles-may-jump-start-planet-formation/
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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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- NRAO_Gallery051
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- OMC-2/3
- Credits
- S. Schnee, et al.; B. Saxton, B. Kent (NRAO/AUI/NSF); We acknowledge the use of NASA's SkyView Facility located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 1.5E+03
- Redshift
- 1.5E+03
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/pebble-size-particles-may-jump-start-planet-formation/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Skyview, Skyview, Skyview, GBT
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared, Radio
- Bandpass
- B, V, I, -
- Central Wavelength
- 491, 674, 850, -
- Start Time
- 2014-08-08T09:28:55-04:00, 2014-08-08T09:28:54-04:00, 2014-08-08T09:28:57-04:00, 2012-05-24
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 83.83228302000, -5.05377817154
- Reference Dimension
- 2700, 2700
- Reference Pixel
- 1350.61608142351, 1350.38181942226
- Scale
- -0.00037041262, 0.00037041262
- Rotation
- -0.00055638815
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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/2018/03/GBT_MMfull-copy.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-12T19:04:25+00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
