Maelstrom of star birth
esahubble_opo9545a November 20th, 1995
Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and S.K. Wong (Rice University)
This spectacular colour panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about five percent the area covered by the full Moon.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9545a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and S.K. Wong (Rice University)
- Release Date
- 1995-11-20T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Nii, H-alpha, Oiii
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 656, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8080853239, -5.38411463192
- Reference Dimension
- 2730.0, 2940.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1365.0, 1470.0
- Scale
- -4.31412039594e-05, 4.31412039594e-05
- Rotation
- -0.14
- 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
- opo9545a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9545a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:44:43+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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