Hubble/Subaru Composite Image of Star-Forming Region S106
stsci_2011-38b December 15th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and the Subaru Telescope (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Hubble Space Telescope's high resolution combines with the Subaru Telescope's wide field-of-view to reveal a depiction of star-forming region S106 that is not possible from either telescope alone. The bipolar S106 shows bright gas in two distinct lobes. The faint stars located near the nebulosity are brown dwarf candidates associated with the region of star formation. This composite image combines optical and near-infrared astronomical data from the Hubble Space Telescope with mid-infrared data from the ground-based Subaru Telescope, located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Hubble data (H-alpha, J, and H) were taken as part of Hubble Heritage observations of S106 in Feburary 2011. The Subaru data (J, H, and K) were obtained in May 1999.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2011/news-2011-38
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 2011-38b
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1 B.4.2.3
- Subject Name
- S106, Sh2-106, Sharpless 2-106
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and the Subaru Telescope (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Release Date
- 2011-12-15T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 2,000
- Redshift
- 2,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2011/news-2011-38
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- About 2000 light-years (600 parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Red, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- J, H, Halpha
- Central Wavelength
- 110, 160, 658
- Start Time
- 2011-02-13T00:00:00, 2011-02-13T00:00:00, 2011-02-12T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- F
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 306.86063865841, 37.37822423847
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.00, 2957.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1623.80727692361, 1490.58001019274
- Scale
- -0.00002981962, 0.00002981962
- Rotation
- 90.15573181362
- 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 111.32 701.55 1477.97 974.01 667.98 192.83 2259.53 1414.42 662.45 1229.54 1084.00 1796.06 957.29 760.66 1725.37 1956.22 755.33 585.77 1847.69 1661.03 Center Pixel Coordinates: 1500.00 306.86103366140 1478.50 37.38192789468
- 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-p1138b-f-3000x2957.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1138b-f-3000x2957.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
