Behind the Gas and Dust of Orion's Trapezium Cluster
stsci_2000-19b August 24th, 2000
Credit: NASA; K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.)
A 2000 Hubble Space Telescope image of Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-19
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2000-19b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
- Credits
- NASA; K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.)
- Release Date
- 2000-08-24T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 1,500
- Redshift
- 1,500
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-19
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 1100, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 83.81960490000, -5.38333970000
- Reference Dimension
- 700.00, 701.00
- Reference Pixel
- 348.06784155972, 350.77801294377
- Scale
- -0.00005647656, 0.00005647656
- Rotation
- -1.08112344805
- 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 762.18 893.12 358.00 427.00 621.47 699.65 291.00 331.00 826.98 505.65 393.25 237.16 1108.45 814.52 527.99 392.02 478.25 1023.76 218.00 488.76 Center Pixel Coordinates: 350.00 83.81949543353 350.50 -5.38329679981
- 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-p0019b-f-700x701.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0019b-f-700x701.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/19
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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