The Orion Nebula
stsci_2020-24a April 16th, 2020
Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
This color-composite mosaic of the central part of the Orion Nebula is based on 81 images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The famous Trapezium stars appear near the center, amid the Trapezium Cluster, the very crowded home of more than a thousand young stars. Researchers will train Webb on this region to study phenomena associated with the birth of stars and planets.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-24
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Image Details
Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 2020-24a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- M 42, Messier 42, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
- Release Date
- 2020-04-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 1,400
- Redshift
- 1,400
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-24
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Lightyears
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Spitzer
- Instrument
- ISAAC, ISAAC, ISAAC, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- J, H, K, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.811506336, -5.38331259103
- Reference Dimension
- 2760.0, 2804.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1459.78125, 1434.35384615
- Scale
- -4.10564651891e-05, 4.10564651891e-05
- Rotation
- -0.015451480759998127
- 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-J-p2024a-f-2760x2804.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-J-p2024a-f-2760x2804.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-12-10T14:54:33-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
