File:Flight to Star Cluster Westerlund 2.ogv
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English: Flight to Star Cluster Westerlund 2
The nebula Gum 29 is a star-forming region about 20,00 light-years away in the constellation Carina. At the core of the nebula is a cluster of several thousand stars called Westerlund 2. These newborn stars are approximately 2 million years old, and their light illuminates, heats, and erodes the surrounding gas. The Hubble image, utilizing both visible and infrared light observations, was released in celebration of the telescope's 25th anniversary. This visualization provides a three-dimensional perspective on the nebula and star cluster. The flight traverses the foreground stars and approaches the lower left rim of the nebula. Passing through the wispy darker clouds on the near side, the journey reveals bright gas illuminated by the intense radiation of the newly formed star cluster. Within the nebula, several pillars of dark, dense gas are being shaped by the energetic light and strong stellar winds from the brilliant cluster of thousands of stars. Note that the visualization is intended only as a scientifically reasonable interpretation and that distances within the model are significantly compressed. |
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| Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhmwT_NJzU; originally from http://hubble25th.org/images/27 |
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NASA, ESA, Greg Bacon, Lisa Frattare, Zolt Levay, and Frank Summers (Viz3D Team, STScI), and Jay Anderson (STScI) Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), the Westerlund 2 Science Team, and ESO |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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| current | 07:52, 29 May 2020 | 40 s, 3,840 × 2,160 (115.91 MB) | Huntster (talk | contribs) | c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Significantly higher resolution version from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhmwT_NJzU | |
| 03:08, 8 June 2015 | 40 s, 1,280 × 720 (17.3 MB) | LuisArmandoRasteletti (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
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