Gas Plume Near the Edge of the Orion Nebula
stsci_1992-29a December 16th, 1992
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "true color" mosaic image of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode). Hubble shows a wealth of detail never seen before in the nebula. New features include: elongated objects oriented on the brightest stars in this region (which are located just off the edge of the picture); rapidly expanding plumes of material around young stars; and protoplanetary disks. This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of three abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen. The images were taken August 13 and 14, 1991. The image is 1.29 light-years across.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1992/news-1992-29
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1992-29a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Orion Nebula
- Credits
- C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
- Release Date
- 1992-12-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 1,500
- Redshift
- 1,500
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1992/news-1992-29
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Light years
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC, WFPC, WFPC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 83.80464415982, -5.42168903673
- Reference Dimension
- 2448.00, 2369.00
- Reference Pixel
- 603.08799156022, 1741.40781948944
- Scale
- -0.00001838392, 0.00001838392
- Rotation
- 65.14735724284
- 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 FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 388.88 296.78 640.77 451.38 501.45 507.59 460.85 770.19 331.57 159.65 729.16 249.36 532.23 755.84 414.90 1154.27 208.25 266.77 925.69 410.17 678.32 179.21 183.39 268.23 Center Pixel Coordinates: 1224.00 83.81847752380 1184.50 -5.41590301625
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9229a-f-2448x2369.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9229a-f-2448x2369.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1992/29
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
