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Glowing stellar nurseries*
Colour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red).
This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop
Credit:ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)
Over de afbeelding
| Id: | eso0840a |
| Type: | Observatie |
| Publicatiedatum: | 11 november 2008 |
| Gerelateerde berichten: | eso0840 |
| Grootte: | 1872 x 2348 px |
Over het object
| Naam: | RCW120 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
| Afstand: | 4500 lichtjaren |
| Constellation: | Scorpius |
| Categorie: | Nebulae |
Mounted Image
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 17 12 24.03 |
| Position (Dec): | -38° 28' 11.49" |
| Field of view: | 31.40 x 39.38 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 1.8° right of vertical |
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Kleuren & filters
| Band | Golflengte | Telescoop |
|---|---|---|
| Optisch B | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A | |
| Millimeter Submillimetre | 870 μm | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment LABOCA |
| Optisch Pseudogreen (R+I) | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A | |
| Optisch R |
Other
N/A | |
| Optisch R | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A |