A Dying Star Shrouded by a Blanket of Hailstones Forms the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302)
stsci_2004-46a May 3rd, 2004
Credit: NASA, ESA and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. This NASA Hubble Wide Field Plantery Camera 2 image shows impressive walls of compressed gas, laced with trailing strands and bubbling outflows.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2004/news-2004-46
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- ID
- 2004-46a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 6302, Bug Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
- Release Date
- 2004-05-03T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 4,000
- Redshift
- 4,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2004/news-2004-46
- 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
- H-alpha, -, NII
- Central Wavelength
- 656, -, 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 258.45374512500, -37.10256106861
- Reference Dimension
- 1181.00, 1476.00
- Reference Pixel
- 32.21106185947, 350.08079711152
- Scale
- -0.00001264235, 0.00001264235
- Rotation
- 45.26930479647
- 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 1272.69 982.04 192.98 675.43 1062.05 1092.21 39.64 1173.86 1111.39 1193.27 274.41 1253.14 1225.14 1328.03 659.88 1284.10 1446.52 1161.51 743.39 680.09 Center Pixel Coordinates: 590.50 258.44314988693 738.00 -37.10411451415
- 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-p0446a-f-1181x1476.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0446a-f-1181x1476.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/46
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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