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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
Källa:ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)
Om bilden
| ID: | eso0840a |
| Typ: | Observation |
| Publiceringsdatum: | 11 november 2008 |
| Relaterade pressmeddelanden: | eso0840 |
| Storlek: | 1872 x 2348 px |
Om objektet
| Namn: | RCW120 |
| Typ: | Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
| Avstånd: | 4500 ljusår |
| Constellation: | Scorpius |
| Kategori: | Nebulae |
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Koordinater
| Position (RA): | 17 12 24.03 |
| Position (Dec): | -38° 28' 11.49" |
| Field of view: | 31.40 x 39.38 arcminutes |
| Orientering: | Nord är 1.8° höger om lodrätt |
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Färger och filter
| Band | Våglängd | Teleskop |
|---|---|---|
| Synligt ljus B | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A | |
| Millimetervågor Submillimetre | 870 μm | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment LABOCA |
| Synligt ljus Pseudogreen (R+I) | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A | |
| Synligt ljus R |
Other
N/A | |
| Synligt ljus R | Digitized Sky Survey 2 N/A |