Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam Image)
stsci_2025-141a September 25th, 2025
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Ginsburg (U.Florida) and STScI Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-explores-largest-star-forming-cloud-in-milky-way/
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
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Color Mapping
| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 1.5 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 1.8 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 1.9 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 2.1 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 2.1 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 3.0 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 3.6 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 4.1 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 4.1 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 4.7 µm |
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Webb (NIRCam) | Infrared | 4.8 µm |
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- ID
- 2025-141a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Sagittarius B2, Sgr B2
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Ginsburg (U.Florida) and STScI Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2025-09-25T10:15:00
- Lightyears
- 26,000
- Redshift
- 26,000
- Reference Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-explores-largest-star-forming-cloud-in-milky-way/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb
- Instrument
- NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Blue, Cyan, Cyan, Green, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 1500, 1820, 1870, 2120, 2100, 3000, 3600, 4050, 4100, 4660, 4800
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 266.83474053407, -28.39798855113
- Reference Dimension
- 11256.00, 4877.00
- Reference Pixel
- 5606.05434317126, 2429.78684112632
- Scale
- -0.00000867285, 0.00000867285
- Rotation
- -90.56736800513
- 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 2298.30 1115.63 9155.64 4447.61 860.61 1211.90 3360.93 4773.86 778.48 79.46 3077.44 209.15 2111.73 234.85 8441.75 889.75 1697.82 758.01 6752.17 2980.90 Center Pixel Coordinates: 5628.00 266.83483842664 2438.50 -28.39779902501
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- https://www.stsci.edu/
- 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
- https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-p25141a-f-11256x4877.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2025-141/STSCI-J-p25141a-f-11256x4877.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2025-10-20T12:51:44-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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