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About this Object
Object Name:
 IRAS 20324+4057
Object Description:
 Protostar in the Cygnus OB2 Association
Position (J2000.0):
RA: 20h 34m 14s.12
Dec: +41° 08' 03".55
Constellation:
 Cygnus
Distance:
 4,500 light-years (1,380 megaparsecs)
About the Data
Data Description:
 The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 10536: R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), M. Morris (UCLA), C.S. Contreras (CSIC/INTA), M. Claussen (Associated Universities, Inc.), and S. Salim (Indiana University). The science teams include: N. Wright, J. Drake, M. Guarcello, and L. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Drew (University of Hertfordshire), R. Gutermuth (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and K. Kraemer (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Boston College); and R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), M. Morris (UCLA), and M. Claussen (Associated Universities, Inc.).
Instrument:
 ACS/WFC
Filters:
 F606W (V) and F814W (I)
Exposure Date:
 July 22, 2006
About this Image
Note:
 Hubble data of IRAS 20324+4057 have been combined with ground-based H-alpha observations taken in 2003 with the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) to create the composite image.
Credit:
 NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and the IPHAS Survey
Release Date:
 August 29, 2013
Color: This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the ACS instrument and the Isaac Newton Telescope. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are:
INT: H-alpha cyan
ACS: F606W (V) blue
ACS: F814W (I) red
Orientation/Scale: