File:NGC 7000- The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula (noao-n7000mosblock).tiff
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this JPG preview of this TIF file: 800 × 548 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 219 pixels | 640 × 439 pixels | 1,024 × 702 pixels | 1,280 × 877 pixels | 2,758 × 1,890 pixels.
Original file (2,758 × 1,890 pixels, file size: 14.34 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionNGC 7000- The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula (noao-n7000mosblock).tiff |
English: The North America Nebula (NGC 7000), named for its resemblance to the North American Continent here on Earth, is located in the constellation of Cygnus. Most of the nebulosity shown here is in the foreground (superimposed) of the band of the Milky Way. The stars are very dense towards this spiral arm and where the dust and gas thins, their numbers are plain to see.This four frame mosaic subtends more than 4 degrees of the sky. You could easily fit over 30 Moons in this picture! The very bright star on the right of the frame is Deneb, and surprisingly it is not associated with the nebula as it is well over 1,500 light years away. Indeed, if Deneb were 50 times closer (30 light years, I am insinuating absolute magnitude) it would be brighter than Venus in the sky and rival the moon! (-7.2 in magnitude).But the wonderfully glowing clouds shown here are closer, and until recently the star (or stars) responsible for making them glow was a mystery. In the fall of 2004 two astronomers, Fernando Comeron and Anna Pasquali, published a paper that seems to identify this secretive star. The star is hidden behind thick clouds of dust that attenuate its light. By observing in the infrared and looking for stars that are intrinsically hot and bright (OB)- only one seemed to fit the shoe! Click HERE to the same high-resolution image you get when you click on the image below... but with an arrow indicating this stealthy star. Look just off the coast of "Florida" in the Atlantic Ocean.This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014. |
Date | 11 June 2014, 06:14:00 (upload date) |
Source | NGC 7000: The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula |
Author | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block |
Other versions |
|
Licensing
[edit]This media was created by the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab).
Their website states: "Unless specifically noted, the images, videos, and music distributed on the public NOIRLab website, along with the texts of press releases, announcements, images of the week and captions; are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and may on a non-exclusive basis be reproduced without fee provided the credit is clear and visible." To the uploader: You must provide a link (URL) to the original file and the authorship information if available. | |
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 17:19, 23 October 2023 | 2,758 × 1,890 (14.34 MB) | OptimusPrimeBot (talk | contribs) | #Spacemedia - Upload of https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n7000mosblock.tif via Commons:Spacemedia |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Image title | The North America Nebula (NGC 7000), named for its resemblance to the North American Continent here on Earth, is located in the constellation of Cygnus. Most of the nebulosity shown here is in the foreground (superimposed) of the band of the Milky Way. The stars are very dense towards this spiral arm and where the dust and gas thins, their numbers are plain to see.This four frame mosaic subtends more than 4 degrees of the sky. You could easily fit over 30 Moons in this picture! The very bright star on the right of the frame is Deneb, and surprisingly it is not associated with the nebula as it is well over 1,500 light years away. Indeed, if Deneb were 50 times closer (30 light years, I am insinuating absolute magnitude) it would be brighter than Venus in the sky and rival the moon! (-7.2 in magnitude).But the wonderfully glowing clouds shown here are closer, and until recently the star (or stars) responsible for making them glow was a mystery. In the fall of 2004 two astronomers, Fernando Comeron and Anna Pasquali, published a paper that seems to identify this secretive star. The star is hidden behind thick clouds of dust that attenuate its light. By observing in the infrared and looking for stars that are intrinsically hot and bright (OB)- only one seemed to fit the shoe! Click HERE to the same high-resolution image you get when you click on the image below... but with an arrow indicating this stealthy star. Look just off the coast of "Florida" in the Atlantic Ocean. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014. |
---|---|
Width | 2,758 px |
Height | 1,890 px |
Bits per component |
|
Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 31 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 22.4 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 16:47, 30 August 2021 |
Exif version | 2.31 |
Color space | sRGB |