Orion Nebula, M42
noirlab_noaoann09009a May 18th, 2009
Credit: D. Riebel (JHU), M. Meixner (STScI) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The Orion Nebula seen with the infrared eyes of the WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC) in the emission lines of HeI (1083 nm; blue), FeII (1644 nm; green), and H2 (2122 nm; red). The HeI shows the location of the ionized gas and the holes around the O-type stars show the location where the gas is highly ionized by the stars. The H2 shows the shocked molecular gas in what seems to be an apparent explosion of molecular cloud material. The FeII shows the location of the shocked gas fronts at the head of the molecular bullets.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann09009a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- noaoann09009a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- D. Riebel (JHU), M. Meixner (STScI) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2009-05-18T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann09009a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope, WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope, WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- WHIRC, WHIRC, WHIRC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H2, Fell, Hel
- Central Wavelength
- 2122, 1644, 1083
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8177810236, -5.37271870975
- Reference Dimension
- 2414.0, 2740.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1207.0, 1370.0
- Scale
- -2.69625071034e-05, 2.69625071034e-05
- Rotation
- 0.69999999999999984
- 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
- noaoann09009a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noaoann09009a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-05-18T12:38:56-07:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
