Gas Plume From a Newborn Star in the Orion Nebula
stsci_1992-29b December 16th, 1992
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,500 light-years away. Studies of similar objects infer that such highly supersonic shock waves are formed by a beam of material coming out of newly formed stars. The plume is only 1,500 years old. The image is 112 light-year across. This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of the two abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen and Oxygen. The images were taken with HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode), on August 13 and 14, 1991.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1992/news-1992-29
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1992-29b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Orion Nebula
- Credits
- C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
- Release Date
- 1992-12-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 1,500
- Redshift
- 1,500
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1992/news-1992-29
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Light years
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC, WFPC, WFPC
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 83.80464415982, -5.42168903673
- Reference Dimension
- 2862.00, 2111.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1124.32376168357, 553.54958336926
- Scale
- -0.00000696927, 0.00000696927
- Rotation
- -24.29950605230
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 388.25 291.98 1617.36 1457.40 503.46 508.20 728.70 1931.35 334.59 159.40 2186.10 1238.20 208.33 266.73 1730.03 731.76 323.05 8.13 2822.81 1180.89 Center Pixel Coordinates: 1431.00 83.80421666077 1055.50 -5.41765686481
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
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- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9229b-f-2862x2111.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9229b-f-2862x2111.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1992/29
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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