Around NGC 3603
This wide-field image, based on data from Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the whole region around the cosmic factory NGC 3603, located 22,000 light-years away.
Credit:
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
About the Image
| Id: | eso1005b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 3 February 2010, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1005 |
| Size: | 9529 x 10212 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 3603 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation • Nebulae |
| Distance: | 22000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Infrared I |
DSS |
| Optical R |
DSS |
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