Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
LMC N 180B, LHA 120-N 180B |
| Object Description: |
Bright compact HII region in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 05h 48m 48s.65
Dec. -70° 04' 27 ".36 |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
Approximately 160,000 light-years (50 kiloparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is 2.5 arcminutes (118 light-years or 36 parsecs) wide. |
|
| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from the following proposal: 6698: Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, 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). The main science team is composed of Y. Nazé (Universite de Liège, Belgium) and Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign). |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
April 29, 1998 |
| Exposure Time: |
37 minutes |
| Filters: |
F656N (Halpha) and F502N ([O III]) |
|
| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
August 11, 2006 |
| Orientation/Scale: |
 |
|
