Setting the dark on fire
eso_eso1304a January 23rd, 2013
Credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2
A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark and obscured in visible-light observations, APEX’s LABOCA camera can detect the heat glow of the dust and reveal the hiding places where new stars are being formed. The image shows the region around the reflection nebula NGC 1999 in visible light, with the APEX observations overlaid in brilliant orange tones that seem to set the dark clouds on fire.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1304a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso1304a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 1999, OMC
- Credits
- ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2013-01-23T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1304a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
- Instrument
- N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, None
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Blue, Yellow, Red, Red, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared, Millimeter
- Bandpass
- O, B, E, R, I, Submillimetre
- Central Wavelength
- 440, 480, 650, 680, 800, 870000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.104138, -6.711996
- Reference Dimension
- 2115.0, 2648.0
- Reference Pixel
- 878.794781588, 822.997116553
- Scale
- -0.00027976277, 0.00027976277
- Rotation
- -0.21675410495
- 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
- eso1304a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1304a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-12-20T15:41:53+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
