Eye-Shaped Planetary Nebula NGC 6826
stsci_1997-38d December 17th, 1997
Credit: Bruce Balick (University of Wash)
NGC 6826's eye-like appearance is marred by two sets of blood-red "fliers" that lie horizontally across the image. The surrounding faint green "white" of the eye is believed to be gas that made up almost half of the star's mass for most of its life. The hot remnant star (in the center of the green oval) drives a fast wind into older material, forming a hot interior bubble which pushes the older gas ahead of it to form a bright rim. (The star is one of the brightest stars in any planetary.) NGC 6826 is 2,200 light- years away in the constellation Cygnus. The Hubble telescope observation was taken Jan. 27, 1996 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-38
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1997-38d
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- GC 6826
- Credits
- Bruce Balick (University of Wash)
- Release Date
- 1997-12-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 2,200
- Redshift
- 2,200
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-38
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, OI, NII, SII
- Central Wavelength
- 502, 631, 658, 673
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 296.20365097556, 50.51341987500
- Reference Dimension
- 737.00, 737.00
- Reference Pixel
- -172.61819776919, -413.81428615013
- Scale
- -0.00001175972, 0.00001175972
- Rotation
- -25.41003594342
- 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 1011.58 672.97 107.85 339.84 1213.06 567.58 608.45 374.43 1115.77 629.70 356.12 380.54 1081.27 671.49 247.95 422.77 Center Pixel Coordinates: 368.50 296.20064912182 368.50 50.52530207471
- 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-p9738d-f-737x737.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9738d-f-737x737.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/38
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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