Star WR 136 Tears Apart a Shell of Gas
stsci_2000-23b July 13th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA, Brian D. Moore, Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), Reginald Dufour (Rice University)
A 2000 Hubble Space Telescope image of Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-23
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2000-23b
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.4 B.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, Brian D. Moore, Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), Reginald Dufour (Rice University)
- Release Date
- 2000-07-13T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 4,500
- Redshift
- 4,500
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-23
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, H-alpha, SII
- Central Wavelength
- 502, 656, 673
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 303.13659022583, 38.45404171528
- Reference Dimension
- 1497.00, 1517.00
- Reference Pixel
- 687.55528087852, 766.16038514257
- Scale
- -0.00002736933, 0.00002736933
- Rotation
- -9.69567003979
- 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 1050.94 851.63 847.03 727.77 1274.39 1034.80 1034.45 946.83 1214.83 697.04 1034.45 598.77 919.22 550.15 765.15 404.65 Center Pixel Coordinates: 748.50 303.13442299422 758.50 38.45412549634
- 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-p0023b-f-1497x1517.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0023b-f-1497x1517.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/23
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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