Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star (September 2002 image)
This is the second in a sequence of four pictures from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys that dramatically demonstrates the echoing of light through space caused by an unusual stellar outburst in January 2002.
The image was taken 2 September 2002. The image is combined from exposures taken through blue (B), green (V), and infrared (I) filters.
Credit:NASA, European Space Agency, and H.E. Bond (STScI
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About the Image
Id: | heic0304c |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 26 March 2003, 15:00 |
Related releases: | heic0304 |
Size: | 1651 x 1651 px |
About the Object
Name: | IRAS 07015-0346, V838 Mon |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Supergiant Milky Way : Star : Type : Variable |
Distance: | 20000 light years |
Constellation: | Monoceros |
Category: | Stars |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 7 4 4.89 |
Position (Dec): | -3° 50' 50.26" |
Field of view: | 1.38 x 1.38 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.0° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical B | 435 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |