Tarantula Nebula (Unannotated)
stsci_2012-01i April 17th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Lennon (ESA/Hubble)
A 2012 Hubble Space Telescope image of Tarantula Nebula, 30 Doradus, 30 Dor, NGC 2070.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-01
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2012-01i
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.4 C.3.6.4.1 C.4.2.1 C.3.6.4.2 C.4.2.3
- Subject Name
- Tarantula Nebula, 30 Doradus, 30 Dor, NGC 2070
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and D. Lennon (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2012-04-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 170,000
- Redshift
- 170,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-01
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Approximately 170,000 light-years (52,000 parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, ESO-2.2m, ESO-2.2m, ESO-2.2m, ESO-2.2m
- Instrument
- ACS, WFC3, -, -, -, -
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Luminosity, Red, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, i, Halpha, Halpha, [O III], [O III]
- Central Wavelength
- 775, 775, -, -, -, -
- Start Time
- 2011-10-03, 2011-10-03, -, -, -, -
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- H
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 84.73924229867, -69.11090281700
- Reference Dimension
- 4065.00, 3252.00
- Reference Pixel
- 994.22775157371, 1223.43190887817
- Scale
- -0.00005500049, 0.00005500049
- Rotation
- 35.19323256837
- 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 424.66 1080.54 915.60 1660.48 924.04 1055.90 1102.32 1830.81 1723.74 2771.45 772.78 2727.68 1549.77 523.98 1515.66 1865.06 151.36 2296.69 382.90 1995.86 1043.96 2146.51 754.64 2261.65 2051.92 1163.47 1465.60 2272.58 141.02 348.59 1076.84 1297.80 Center Pixel Coordinates: 2032.50 84.57237859115 1626.00 -69.12559948763
- 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-p1201i-f-4065x3252.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1201i-f-4065x3252.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/01
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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