| NASA Center: |
Hubble Space Telescope Center |
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| Image # : |
PR00-10 |
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| Date : |
03/02/2000
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Title
The Reflection Nebula in Orion
Full Description
Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope
in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of
NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.
The Heritage astronomers, in collaboration with scientists in Texas and
Ireland, used Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to
obtain the color image. NGC 1999 is an example of a reflection nebula.
Like fog around a street lamp, a reflection nebula shines only because
the light from an imbedded source illuminates its dust; the nebula does
not emit any visible light of its own. NGC 1999 lies close to the
famous Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in a region
of our Milky Way galaxy where new stars are being formed actively.
NGC 1999 was discovered some two centuries ago by Sir William Herschel
and his sister Caroline, and was cataloged later in the 19th century as
object 1999 in the New General Catalogue.
This data was collected in January 2000 by the Hubble Heritage Team
with the collaboration of star-formation experts C. Robert O'Dell (Rice
University), Thomas P. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Study), and
David Corcoran (University of Limerick).
Keywords
Hubble Space Telescope HST NGC 1999 Reflection Nebula Wide Field Planetary Camera WFPC
Subject Category
Deep Space Studies, Hubble,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HSTI
- Center Number:
PR00-10
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000888
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA The Hubble Heritage Team
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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