Sculpting the landscape
esahubble_heic0601g January 11th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0601g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Color Mapping
| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Hubble (ACS) | Infrared (Z) | 850.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Infrared (I) | 775.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (H-alpha) | 658.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (B) | 435.0 nm |
| Additional observational data from the WFI instrument on the ESO.MPG 2.2-metre telescope. | |||
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- ID
- heic0601g
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Messier 43, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
- Release Date
- 2006-01-11T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0601g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Z, I, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 850, 775, 658, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- A
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.6421490873, -5.43646080257
- Reference Dimension
- 3939.0, 2955.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1969.5, 1477.5
- Scale
- -2.78029945424e-05, 2.78029945424e-05
- Rotation
- -0.020000000000000049
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0601g
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0601g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-01-02T14:14:31-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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