Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
DEM L 106 |
| Object Description: |
H II Region and Reflection Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 05h 13m 44.90s
Dec. -67° 27' 56.44" |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
The distance to the LMC is roughly 160,000 light-years (50 kpc). |
| Dimensions: |
The image is 1.25 arcminutes wide. At the distance of the LMC, this corresponds to 59 light-years (18 parsecs). |
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| About the Data |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
November 14, 1998; October 18, 2001 |
| Exposure Time: |
1.7 hours |
| Principal Astronomers: |
M.S. Oey (Lowell Obs.), J. English (U. Manitoba) and The Hubble Heritage Team: K. Noll, H. Bond, C. Christian, L. Frattare, F. Hamilton, Z. Levay, and T. Royle (STScI) Y.-H. Chu and C.-H. Chen (U. Illinois), C. Danforth (JHU), B. Dunne and R. Gruendl (U. Illinois), Y. Naze (Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Belgium), and S. Points (Northwestern U.) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
December 5 , 2002 |
| Filters: |
F439W (B), F555W (V), F656N (H-alpha), F673N ([S II]), F814W (I) |
| Orientation: |
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