Red Giant Star Mira and Its Companion
stsci_1997-26b August 6th, 1997
Credit: Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the cool red giant star Mira A (right), officially called Omicron Ceti in the constellation Cetus, and its nearby hot companion (left) taken on December 11, 1995 in visible light using the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC). The stars in this false-color picture are separated by an angular size of only 0.6 arcseconds (equal to 70 times the distance between Earth and the Sun), but clearly resolved by the FOC. Image reconstruction techniques have been used to further enhance the details in the Mira images.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-26
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1997-26b
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.4
- Subject Name
- Mira A, Omicron Ceti
- Credits
- Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-08-06T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 424
- Redshift
- 424
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-26
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- FOC
- Color Assignment
- Orange
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- O III
- Central Wavelength
- 501
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 34.83630518527, -2.97734862479
- Reference Dimension
- 500.00, 279.00
- Reference Pixel
- 50.10567236707, -126.62671612787
- Scale
- -0.00000075359, 0.00000075359
- Rotation
- -15.73974041304
- 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 94.93 101.86 84.12 130.01 137.00 103.96 404.04 151.67 94.35 107.81 93.04 172.07 136.60 116.52 406.15 211.39 147.21 115.76 486.90 211.48 Center Pixel Coordinates: 250.00 34.83626037416 139.50 -2.97711322772
- 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-p9726b-f-500x279.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9726b-f-500x279.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/26
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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