The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope
noirlab_eso1309a December 4th, 2024
Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy’s structure and explain how it formed.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/eso1309a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1309a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6357
- Credits
- ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
- Release Date
- 2024-12-04T10:05:03
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/eso1309a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
- Instrument
- VIRCAM, VIRCAM, VIRCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Ks, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 2150, 1650, 1250
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 261.268475427, -34.3111111481
- Reference Dimension
- 16000.0, 16000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8000.0, 8000.0
- Scale
- -9.47096377919e-05, 9.47096377919e-05
- Rotation
- 55.958999202686606
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- eso1309a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/eso1309a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-01-18T12:38:39+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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