Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
N11B |
| Object Description: |
H II Region in the LMC |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 4h 56m 51s.96
Dec. -66° 24' 32".01 |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
Approximately 160,000 light-years (50 kiloparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughly 2.2 arcminutes (105 light-years or 32 parsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from the following proposal: 6698: Y.-H. Chu (U. Illinois at Urbana - Champaign), D. Bomans and K. Weis (Universitat Bochum), G. Garcia-Segura and M. Rosado (UNAM), A. Laval (Observatoire de Marseille), S. Points (Northwestern U.), H. Yang (U. Minnesota - Twin Cities) Y. Naze (Universite de Liege, Belgium) is also a science collaborator. |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
May 12, 1999 |
| Exposure Time: |
37 minutes |
| Filters: |
F656N (Halpha), F502N ([O III]) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and HEIC |
| Release Date: |
July 1, 2004 |
| Orientation: |
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