File:Horsehead Nebula (NIRCam Image) (2024-119).png
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English: This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb’s NIRCam (Near-infrared Camera). The ethereal clouds that appear blue at the bottom of the image are filled with a variety of materials including hydrogen, methane, and water ice. Red-colored wisps extending above the main nebula represent both atomic and molecular hydrogen. In this area, known as a photodissociation region, ultraviolet light from nearby young, massive stars creates a mostly neutral, warm area of gas and dust between the fully ionized gas above and the nebula below. As with many Webb images, distant galaxies are sprinkled in the background.
This image is composed of light at wavelengths of 1.4 and 2.5 microns (represented in blue), 3.0 and 3.23 microns (cyan), 3.35 microns (green), 4.3 microns (yellow), and 4.7 and 4.05 microns (red). NASA, ESA, CSA, Karl Misselt (University of Arizona), Alain Abergel (AIM Paris-Saclay) |
Date | 29 April 2024 (upload date) |
Source | Horsehead Nebula (NIRCam Image) |
Author | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Karl Misselt (University of Arizona), Alain Abergel (AIM Paris-Saclay) |
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Keywords InfoField | Star Forming Regions; Nebulas |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material 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/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt (University of Arizona) and Abergel (IAS/University Paris-Saclay, CNRS) |
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Date and time of data generation | 18:00, 30 April 2124 |
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Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Contact information | outreach@stsci.edu
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Keywords | Horsehead Nebula |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:04, 8 February 2024 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 25.3 (Windows) |
Date metadata was last modified | 07:30, 10 April 2024 |
File change date and time | 07:03, 10 April 2024 |
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