Hubble’s Views of M13 (2010) and M3 (2019)
stsci_2021-50a September 6th, 2021
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.
To investigate the physics underpinning white dwarf evolution, astronomers compared cooling white dwarfs in two massive collections of stars: the globular clusters M3 and M13. These two clusters share many physical properties such as age and metallicity but the populations of stars which will eventually give rise to white dwarfs are different. This makes M3 and M13 together a perfect natural laboratory in which to test how different populations of white dwarfs cool.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-050
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2021-50a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- M13, M3
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.
- Release Date
- 2021-09-06T11:00:00
- Lightyears
- 25,000
- Redshift
- 34,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-050
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS/WFC, ACS/WFC, ACS/WFC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 625, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 250.423475, 36.46131944
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
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- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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-p2150a-f-6182x3116.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p2150a-f-6182x3116.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2021-12-14T14:28:30-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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