NGC 7027
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 7027, or the “Jewel Bug” nebula.
The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries — until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.
New observations of the object have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in the jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the star at the centre of the nebula.
Credit:NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)
About the Image
| Id: | heic2011c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 18 June 2020, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic2011 |
| Size: | 1764 x 1249 px |
About the Object
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 21 7 1.74 |
| Position (Dec): | 42° 14' 10.89" |
| Field of view: | 1.16 x 0.82 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 2.9° right of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Infrared YJ | 1.1 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Optical NeV | 343 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Optical H-beta | 487 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Optical OIII | 502 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Optical H-alpha | 656 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Optical SII | 673 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Infrared H | 1.6 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Infrared Pa-beta | 1.3 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
| Infrared Pa-beta | 1.28 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |