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January 10, 2011 03:45 PM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2011-01

Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity

Technical facts about this news release:

About the Object

Object Name:	Hanny's Voorwerp
Object Description:	Emission Nebula
Position (J2000):	R.A. 09h 41m 03s.80 Dec. +34° 43' 34".21
Constellation:	Leo Minor
Distance:	65 million light-years (20 million parsecs)
Dimensions:	This image is 90 arcseconds (150,000 light-years or 46,000 parsecs) wide.

About the Data

Note:	Hubble imaging data were combined with the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 3.5-meter Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) telescope data in blue light. Image courtesy of WIYN/W. Keel/A. Manning.
Data Description:	The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11620: W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), C. Lintott (University of Oxford), K. Schawinski (Yale University), N. Bennert (University of California, Riverside), D. Thomas (University of Portsmouth), and H. van Arkel (Netherlands).
Instrument:	WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/IR, and ACS/WFC
Exposure Date(s):	April 4 and 12, 2010
Filters:	FR505N ([O III]), FR716N (Redshifted H-alpha), F814W (I), and F160W (H)

About the Release

Credit:

NASA, ESA, W. Keel (University of Alabama), and the Galaxy Zoo Team

Release Date:

January 10, 2010

Color:

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 and ACS instruments on HST. Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. 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:

WFC3/IR	F160W (H)	dark green
WFC3/UVIS	F814W (I)	dark red
ACS/WFC	FR716N (Redshifted H-alpha)	red
ACS/WFC	FR505N ([O III])	green
WIYN	(B)	blue

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