Protoplanetary Disks in NGC 346 (NIRCam Image)
stsci_2024-135a January 11th, 2023
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA), Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the NGC 346 cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant universe. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-135
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
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- ID
- 2024-135a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4.1 C.4.1.2 C.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 346
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA), Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2023-01-11T10:15
- Lightyears
- 210,000
- Redshift
- 210,000
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-135
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb
- Instrument
- NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Orange, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 2000, 2770, 3350, 4440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 14.77057810141, -72.16910364881
- Reference Dimension
- 7884.00, 11451.00
- Reference Pixel
- 3897.27403691253, 6267.92856030056
- Scale
- -0.00000867829, 0.00000867829
- Rotation
- -5.45791048665
- 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 1238.72 677.35 3950.87 5717.22 2104.17 1245.92 494.10 10934.95 1940.96 211.41 6751.92 9979.83 645.89 371.51 5814.68 2147.83 549.38 1083.48 1508.83 1547.52 337.91 750.62 3529.62 280.64 Center Pixel Coordinates: 3942.00 14.76785744609 5725.50 -72.17374380144
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- https://www.stsci.edu/
- 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
- https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-p24135a-f-8026x8775.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-135/STSCI-J-p24135a-f-8026x8775.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-12-20T12:03:25-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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