Spiral-Structured Planetary Nebula NGC 5307
stsci_1997-38h December 17th, 1997
Credit: Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
NGC 5307 also lies in Centaurus but is about 10,000 light-years away and has a diameter of approximately 0.6 light-year. It is an example of a planetary nebula with a pinwheel or spiral structure; each blob of gas ejected from the central star has a counterpart on the opposite side of the star.
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
- 1997-38h
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 5307
- Credits
- Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
- Release Date
- 1997-12-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 10,000
- Redshift
- 10,000
- 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, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 207.76295075176, -51.20612663213
- Reference Dimension
- 563.00, 563.00
- Reference Pixel
- 231.74432100358, 229.27636344697
- Scale
- -0.00001211705, 0.00001211705
- Rotation
- -159.36615490196
- 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 303.37 298.10 115.00 204.00 444.52 370.78 258.00 278.00 494.03 408.70 307.00 317.00 361.30 302.31 176.08 207.48 Center Pixel Coordinates: 281.50 207.76416250032 281.50 -51.20646535558
- 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-p9738h-f-563x563.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9738h-f-563x563.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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