Object Name:

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.

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:

April 29, 1998

Exposure Time:

37 minutes

Filters:

F656N (Halpha) and F502N ([O III])

Image Credit:

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Release Date:

August 11, 2006

Color:

This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Two filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:

Orientation/Scale: