Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
N44 |
| Object Description: |
H II Region in the LMC |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 5h 21m 49s.79
Dec. -67° 54' 59".14 |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
Approximately 160,000 light-years (50 kiloparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughly 2 arcminutes ( 98 light-years or 30 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. Nazé (U. Liège, Belgium) is also a science collaborator. |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
March 25, 2000 |
| Exposure Time: |
37 minutes |
| Filters: |
F656N (Halpha), F673N ([S II]) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, Y. Nazé (University of Liège, Belgium) and Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana) |
| Release Date: |
August 12, 2004 |
| Orientation: |
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