30 Doradus Ultraviolet Hubble JPL NASA space telescope photo

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The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years. The nebula is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the birth and evolution of stars in the universe. The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
Object Name: 30 Doradus
Object Description: Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Position (J2000): R.A. 05h 38m 42s
Dec. -69° 06' 03''
Constellation: Dorado
Distance: 170,000 light-years (52,000 parsecs)
Data Description: The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona).
Instrument: WFC3/UVIS WFC/IR
Exposure Date(s): October 20 - 27, 2009 October 20 - 27, 2009
Exposure Time: 11.7 hours 2.6 hours
Filters: F336W (U), F438W (B), F555W (V), F814W (I), and F656N (H-alpha) F110W (J) and F160W (H)
About the Image
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
Release Date: December 15, 2009 Color: The images are composites of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges for the UVIS image. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges from the IR image. The colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: WFC3/UVIS Image of 30 Dor F336W (U) and F438W (B) blue F555W (V) green F814W (I) red F656N (H-alpha) orange/red WFC3/IR Image of 30 Dor F110W (J) cyan F160W (H) orange

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