Long-slit composite spectrum from Gemini/PHOENIX
Long-slit composite spectrum from Gemini/PHOENIX showing [Fe II] in blue and molecular hydrogen H2 in red, simultaneously. The bright blue feature in the center, which appears stretched horizontally here, is a younger and smaller bipolar nebula called the Little Homunculus. It was ejected about 50 years after the major eruption that created the larger nebula.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
About the Image
Id: | geminiann06009c |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | April 12, 2006, 1:37 p.m. |
Related announcements: | geminiann06009 |
Size: | 450 x 334 px |
About the Object
Name: | Homunculus Nebula |
Category: | Nebulae |
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Colors & filters
Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
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Infrared Fe II | 1.64 μm | Gemini North Phoenix |
Infrared H2 | 2.122 μm | Gemini North Phoenix |