The Orion Nebula: The jewel in the sword
eso_eso0104c January 17th, 2001
Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
This image shows smaller, particularly interesting areas of ESO Press Photo eso0104a. It shows the delicate tracery created at the so-called Bright Bar, as the intense UV-light and strong winds from the hot Trapezium stars eat their way into the surrounding molecular cloud. Also visible are a number of very young red objects partly hidden in the cloud, waiting to be revealed as new members of the Trapezium Cluster.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0104c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0104c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Trapezium Cluster
- Credits
- ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
- Release Date
- 2001-01-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0104c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ISAAC, ISAAC, ISAAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.813761297, -5.41022803711
- Reference Dimension
- 1740.0, 1560.0
- Reference Pixel
- 870.0, 780.0
- Scale
- -4.10403617754e-05, 4.10403617754e-05
- Rotation
- -0.019999999999999993
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0104c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0104c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:27:01.536813
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
