Planetary Nebula NGC 3918
stsci_1997-38e December 17th, 1997
Credit: Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
NGC 3918 is in the constellation Centaurus and is about 3,000 light-years from us. Its diameter is about 0.3 light-year. It shows a roughly spherical outer envelope but an elongated inner balloon inflated by a fast wind from the hot central star, which is starting to break out of the spherical envelope at the top and bottom of the image.
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
- 1997-38e
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 3918
- Credits
- Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
- Release Date
- 1997-12-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 3,000
- Redshift
- 3,000
- 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
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Yellow, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 177.57496896417, -57.18201494167
- Reference Dimension
- 751.00, 752.00
- Reference Pixel
- 348.22790465051, 355.01812669172
- Scale
- -0.00001275673, 0.00001275673
- Rotation
- 101.74567618818
- 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 488.14 484.86 378.00 351.00 440.18 408.86 307.00 419.00 401.07 411.84 318.00 457.00 573.72 401.16 269.07 277.56 701.19 466.66 310.15 126.02 Center Pixel Coordinates: 375.50 177.57458765415 376.00 -57.18241057187
- 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-p9738e-f-751x752.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9738e-f-751x752.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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