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.

Crediti:

ESO

A proposito dell'immagine

Identificazione:eso0817b
Tipo:Osservazione
Data di pubblicazione:27 Maggio 2008
Notizie relative:eso0817
Dimensione:1039 x 1105 px

A proposito delll'oggetto

Nome:NGC 3576
Tipo:Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Distanza:9000 Anni luce
Constellation:Carina
Categoria:Nebulae

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Coordinate

Position (RA):11 11 53.14
Position (Dec):-61° 18' 11.70"
Field of view:2.57 x 2.74 arcminutes
Orientazione:Il Nord è a 90.2° a destra della verticale

Colori e filtri

BandaTelescopio
Infrarosso
1210
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarosso
1710
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarosso
2090
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC