A Reflection Nebula in Orion
Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. The Heritage astronomers, in collaboration with scientists in Texas and Ireland, used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to obtain this colour image.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0010a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 2 March 2000, 07:00 |
| Size: | 750 x 763 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 1999 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Reflection • Nebulae Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 1500 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
450 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical V |
555 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
675 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
