NASA UNVEILS CELESTIAL FIREWORKS AS OFFICIAL HUBBLE 25TH ANNIVER
stsci_2020-15a April 24th, 1990
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team
NASA and ESA are celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's silver anniversary of 25 years in space by unveiling some of nature's own fireworks - a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. The comparatively young, 2-million-year-old star cluster contains some of our galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars. The largest stars are unleashing a torrent of ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds that etch away the enveloping hydrogen gas cloud. This creates a fantasy celestial landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys.
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Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-15
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Color Mapping
| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Hubble (WFC3) | Infrared (J) | 125.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm |
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Hubble (ACS) | Optical (I) | 814.0 nm |
| The metadata provide is for the center of the cluster. For the edge of the nebula: ACS/WFC F555W (V) is blue, ACS/WFC (V+I) is green, and ACS/WFC F814W is red. | |||
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- 2020-15a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1 B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- Westerlund 2
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team
- Release Date
- 1990-04-24T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 20,000
- Redshift
- 20,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-15
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 20,000 light-years (6,130 parsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- J, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 125, 555, 814
- Start Time
- 2013-09-02T00:00:00, 2013-09-02T00:00:00, 2013-09-02T00:00:00, 2014-11-25T00:00:00, 2014-11-28T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000
- Reference Value
- 156.02479731162, -57.76353613526
- Reference Dimension
- 8919.00, 6683.00
- Reference Pixel
- 4554.76075198062, 3345.13890996326
- Scale
- -0.00001391456, 0.00001391456
- Rotation
- 8.548129828
- 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
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- 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-p2015a-f-8919x6683.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p2015a-f-8919x6683.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
