File:Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (weic2316a).jpg
Original file (12,778 × 11,968 pixels, file size: 15.84 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
DescriptionRho Ophiuchi cloud complex (weic2316a).jpg |
English: The first anniversary image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disc, the makings of future planetary systems.The young stars at the centre of many of these discs are similar in mass to the Sun or smaller. The heftiest in this image is the star S1, which appears amid a glowing cave it is carving out with its stellar winds in the lower half of the image. The lighter-coloured gas surrounding S1 consists of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a family of carbon-based molecules that are among the most common compounds found in space.
Coordinates of this photo: J2000 Right Ascension 16:26:30.56, Declination -24:23:04.16 Field of view: 6.4 arc-minutes Orientation: Roughly North is towards the left, and East is towards the bottom. [Image description: Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom centre, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its centre. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the centre, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top centre of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.] |
Date | 12 July 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex |
Author | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) |
Other versions |
|
Licensing
ESA/Webb images, videos and web texts are released by the ESA under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license and may on a non-exclusive basis be reproduced without fee provided they are clearly and visibly credited. Detailed conditions are below; see the ESA copyright statement for full information. For images created by NASA or on the webbtelescope.org website, use the {{PD-Webb}} tag.
Conditions:
Notes:
|
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
IC 4603
rho Ophiuchi diffraction spike
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
image/jpeg
11,968 pixel
12,778 pixel
16,610,992 byte
f316960b0eeb166a057b12970190a464667216c8
12 July 2023
167nlfdgz9elji9ge58utbinkb8owligi30qd4c62b9r7sddu4
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 10:01, 12 July 2023 | 12,778 × 11,968 (15.84 MB) | OptimusPrimeBot | #Spacemedia - Upload of https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/large/weic2316a.jpg via Commons:Spacemedia |
File usage
The following page uses this file:
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fa.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ja.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
Source | ESA/Webb |
---|---|
Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) |
Short title |
|
Image title |
|
Usage terms |
|
Date and time of data generation | 12:00, 12 July 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 24.4 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 09:58, 17 May 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 05:51, 17 May 2023 |
Date metadata was last modified | 05:58, 17 May 2023 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:3f6886dd-b94c-47a9-8bad-b31b7bbcaa05 |
Contact information |
ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States |
IIM version | 4 |