30 Doradus, 30 Dor

170,000 light-years (52,000 parsecs)

The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona).

WFC3/UVIS (left): F336W (U), F438W (B), F555W (V), F656N (H-alpha), and F814W (I)
WFC3/IR (right): F110W (J) and F160W (H)

Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI);
Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee

The images are composites of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges for the UVIS image. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges from the IR image. The colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:

WFC3/UVIS Image
Blue: F336W (U) and F438W (B)
Green: F555W (V)
Red: F814W (I)
Orange/red: F656N (H-alpha)

WFC3/IR Image
Cyan: F110W (J)
Orange: F160W (H)