Bubbles and baby stars
This image is a screen shot from Hubblecast 37 featuring a spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe. Read more about it in the press release heic1011.
Credit:NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
About the Image
| Id: | ann1006a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 22 June 2010, 11:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann1006 |
| Size: | 1280 x 720 px |
About the Object
| Name: | LHA 120-N 11, N11 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
| Distance: | 170000 light years |
| Constellation: | Dorado |
| Category: | Nebulae |
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 4 56 55.17 |
| Position (Dec): | -66° 24' 51.68" |
| Field of view: | 3.20 x 1.80 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 2.6° right of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical B | 435 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
| Optical V | 550 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
| Optical R | 660 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
| Optical R | 658 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
| Optical I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |