The Dark Wolf Nebula
eso_eso2416a October 31st, 2024
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team
Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful backdrop of glowing gas clouds.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2416a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2416a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Dark Wolf Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/VPHAS+ team
- Release Date
- 2024-10-31T14:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2416a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, u, g, r, H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 756, 354, 475, 625, 659
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- FK5
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 253.54167, -43.38611
- Reference Dimension
- 16823.0, 16823.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8412.0, 8412.0
- Scale
- -5.9444e-05, 5.9444e-05
- Rotation
- 90
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2416a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2416a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-25T14:08:55+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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