The Orion Nebula #3
by Eric Glaser
Title
The Orion Nebula #3
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
"The Orion Nebula #3"
This beautiful image is a composite mosaic of many separate exposures made by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters isolating the light of specific elements or of specific broad wavelength ranges. The color arises by assigning different hues (colors), to each monochromatic image. In this case, the colors are:
Blue: F435W (B)
Cyan: F555W (V)
Yellow: F775W (i)
Red: F139M
The distance to the Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years (460 parsecs).
The image is 7.9 arcminutes (3.4 light-years or 1.1 parsecs) wide.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
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March 18th, 2017
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