Visible Light Image of W5

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About the Object

Color Mapping

Astrometrics

Position (J2000): RA = 3^h 1^m 25.1^s; Dec = 60° 34' 54.5"
Field of View: 34.8 x 25.9 arcminutes
Orientation: North is 84.2° left of vertical
Constellation: Cassiopeia

Recent News

11.09.05

This is a visible-light picture of the region dubbed the "Mountains of Creation."The visible-light image is from California Institute of Technology's Digitized Sky Survey, where B-band data has been mapped to cyan, and R-band data has been mapped to red.

Band	Wavelength	Telescope
Optical	440 nm	DSS
Optical	700 nm	DSS

	May 16 Galaxy's Ring of Fire
	May 6 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
	April 3 A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars
	February 7 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes
	January 8 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
	January 8 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega

	News Release Spitzer Captures Cosmic Mountains of Creation ssc2005-23
	Image Now You See Stars, Now You Don't ssc2005-23a
	Image Towering Infernos ssc2005-23b
	Audio The Mountains of Creation SpitzerAudio-009

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	May 6 An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
	April 3 Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
	March 19 Infant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles
	February 8 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar