NGC 3576

Located 9,000 light-years away, NGC 3576 is a gigantic region of glowing gas about 100 light-years across, where stars are currently forming. The intense radiation and winds from the massive stars are shredding the clouds from which they form, creating dramatic scenery. The black area in the right middle part of the image is dark because of the presence of very dense, opaque clouds of gas and dust. The data used to make this colour-composite images were taken with ISAAC on the VLT, in the framework of observing proposal 079.C-0203(A). The image processing was done by Yuri Beletsky (ESO) and Hännes Heyer (ESO). It is based on data taken through 4 different narrow-band filters centred around 1.21, 1.71, 2.09 and 3.28 microns.

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Über das Bild

ID:eso0817b
Typ:Beobachtung
Veröffentlichungsdatum:27. Mai 2008
Dazugehörige Veröffentlichungen:eso0817
Größe:1039 x 1105 px

Über das Objekt

Name:NGC 3576
Typ:Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Entfernung:9000 Lichtjahre
Constellation:Carina
Kategorie:Nebulae

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Koordinaten

Position (RA):11 11 53.14
Position (Dec):-61° 18' 11.70"
Field of view:2.57 x 2.74 arcminutes
Orientierung:Die Nordrichtung liegt 90.2° rechts zur Vertikale

Farben & Filter

SpektralbereichTeleskop
Infrarot
1210
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarot
1710
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarot
2090
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC