Cosmic Sparklers
Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS
Observation • July 2nd, 2015 • sig15-010
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This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink); infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (red); and optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey and the National Optical Astronomical Observatories Mayall 4-meter telescope on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.
About the Object
- Name
Color Mapping
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| X-ray | 1.5 keV | Chandra ACIS |
| Optical | 443 nm | DSS DSS2B |
| Optical | 660 nm | DSS DSS2R |
| Optical | 656 nm | NOAO |
| Infrared | 4.5 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
Astrometrics
- Position (J2000)
- RA =3h 29m 2.0s
- Dec = 31° 20' 54.6"
- Field of View
- 18.0 x 18.0 arcminutes
- Orientation
- North is up
