Mystic Mountain
eso_eso1639h November 2nd, 2016
Credit: ESO/A. McLeod
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape. But it is indeed a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1639h/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1639h
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- Carina Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/A. McLeod
- Release Date
- 2016-11-02T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1639h/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Green, Red, Red, Red, Magenta
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII, H-Alpha, H-Beta, SII, SII, NII, SIII
- Central Wavelength
- 500.1, 656, 486.1, 673.1, 671.7, 658.4, 906.8
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 161.019152683, -59.5111305981
- Reference Dimension
- 596.0, 903.0
- Reference Pixel
- 298.0, 451.5
- Scale
- -5.54621571005e-05, 5.54621571005e-05
- Rotation
- 179.99999999999994
- 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
- eso1639h
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1639h.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-10-07T11:32:43+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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