First images after Servicing Mission 4
These four images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the upgraded NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The image at top left shows the Bug Nebula, a butterfly-shaped nebula surrounding a dying star. At top right, is a picture of a clash among members of a galactic grouping called Stephan's Quintet. The image at bottom left, gives viewers a panoramic portrait of a colourful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. At bottom right, an eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-coloured clouds.
Credit:NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
About the Image
NASA press release
Id: | heic0910a |
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Type: | Collage |
Release date: | 9 September 2009, 17:00 |
Related releases: | heic0910 |
Size: | 6005 x 7159 px |
About the Object
Name: | Bug Nebula, Carina Nebula, Omega Centauri, Stephan's Quintet |
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Type: | Unspecified |
Category: | Miscellaneous |