Star WR 136 Tears Apart a Shell of Gas
stsci_2000-23c 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
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- ID
- 2000-23c
- 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
- Ground-based image
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 303.02715800000, 38.35501400000
- Reference Dimension
- 2217.00, 2217.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1323.81451002882, 731.78899916646
- Scale
- -0.00012010879, 0.00012010879
- Rotation
- -0.46099178606
- 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
- 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-p0023c-f-2217x2217.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0023c-f-2217x2217.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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