Ground-based image of NGC 2074
This ground-based image shows the region surrounding NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These visible-light emission-line image was taken on the UM/CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) as part of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS). The composite image shows emission from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulphur (red).
Credit:UM/CTIO MCELS Project/NOAO/AURA/NSF
About the Image
NASA press release
| Id: | heic0816b |
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| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 11 August 2008, 07:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0816 |
| Size: | 1000 x 1000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 2074 |
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| Type: | Local Universe : Nebula |
| Distance: | 170000 light years |
| Category: | Nebulae |
