Giant 'twisters' in the Lagoon Nebula
esahubble_opo9638b January 22nd, 1997
Credit: A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA
This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar 'twisters' - eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures - in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9638b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9638b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Lagoon Nebula
- Credits
- A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA
- Release Date
- 1997-01-22T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9638b/
- 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
- Sii, Hii, Oiii
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 270.9229905, -24.3801986
- Reference Dimension
- 742.0, 753.0
- Reference Pixel
- 372.0, 377.5
- Scale
- 1.26796155425e-05, 1.25828435633e-05
- Rotation
- -56.5
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo9638b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9638b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:47:37+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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