Star on a Hubble diet
Looking closer at Pismis 24-1 with Hubble's ACS High Resolution Channel: it becomes clear that it is in reality two stars.
Credit:
NASA, ESA and Jesœs Maz Apellÿniz (Instituto de astrofsica de Andaluca, Spain). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble
)
About the Image
| Id: | heic0619c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 11 December 2006, 19:30 |
| Related releases: | heic0619 |
| Size: | 1142 x 1271 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cl Pismis 24, Pismis 24, Pismis 24-1 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster |
| Distance: | 8000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical V |
550 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical Pseudogreen |
Hubble Space Telescope ACS | |
| Optical R |
658 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared Z |
850 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
