NGC 3576

Located 9,000 light-years away, NGC 3576 is a gigantic region of glowing gas about 100 light-years across, where stars are currently forming. The intense radiation and winds from the massive stars are shredding the clouds from which they form, creating dramatic scenery. The black area in the right middle part of the image is dark because of the presence of very dense, opaque clouds of gas and dust. The data used to make this colour-composite images were taken with ISAAC on the VLT, in the framework of observing proposal 079.C-0203(A). The image processing was done by Yuri Beletsky (ESO) and Hännes Heyer (ESO). It is based on data taken through 4 different narrow-band filters centred around 1.21, 1.71, 2.09 and 3.28 microns.

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ESO

À propos de l'image

Identification:eso0817b
Type:Observation
Date de publication:27 mai 2008
Communiqués de presse en rapport:eso0817
Taille:1039 x 1105 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:NGC 3576
Type:Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Distance:9000 années lumière
Constellation:Carina
Catégorie:Nebulae

Image Formats

Grand JPEG
387,2 Kio
JPEG taille écran
287,5 Kio

Fonds d'écran

1024x768
298,9 Kio
1280x1024
442,7 Kio
1600x1200
589,9 Kio
1920x1200
658,8 Kio
2048x1536
846,5 Kio

Coordinates

Position (RA):11 11 53.14
Position (Dec):-61° 18' 11.70"
Field of view:2.57 x 2.74 arcminutes
Orientation:North is 90.2° right of vertical

Couleurs & filtres

DomaineTélescope
Infrarouge
1210
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarouge
1710
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarouge
2090
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC