A Grand View of the Birth of 'Hefty' Stars - 30 Doradus Nebula Montage
This picture, taken in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2), represents a sweeping view of the 30 Doradus Nebula. But Hubble's infrared camera - the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) - has probed deeper into smaller regions of this nebula to unveil the stormy birth of massive stars. The montages of images in the upper left and upper right represent this deeper view. Each square in the montages is 15.5 light-years (19 arcseconds) across.
Credit:NASA/ESA/Nolan Walborn ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.) and Rodolfo Barba (La Plata Observatory, La Plata, Argentina)
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | 30 Doradus Nebula, Tarantula Nebula |
|---|---|
| Type: | Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
| Distance: | 170000 light years |
| Constellation: | Dorado |
| Category: | Nebulae |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 5 38 46.56 |
|---|---|
| Position (Dec): | -69° 4' 56.25" |
| Field of view: | 0.90 x 0.68 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 38.2° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Infrared J | 1.1 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS |
| Infrared H | 1.6 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS |
| Infrared K | 2.05 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS |