File:Flame nebula WISE.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file(5,525 × 5,535 pixels, file size: 9.25 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: The Flame Nebula and surrounding region. The bright isolated star is Alnilam. Alnitak is difficult to see within the bright nebulosity of the Flame Nebula. The Horsehead Nebula is barely visible at the centre of the image. NGC 2023 is much clearer at these wavelengths, it is the small bright patch of nebulosity just below the Flame Nebula. The red arc surrounds σ Orionis.

In this WISE image, blue represents 3.4 microns, cyan is 4.6 microns, green is 12 microns, and red is 22 microns.
Date
Source http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia15635.html
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

2 July 2012

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current23:01, 6 April 2016Thumbnail for version as of 23:01, 6 April 20165,525 × 5,535 (9.25 MB)LithopsianUser created page with UploadWizard
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata