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December 15, 2009 09:00 AM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2009-32

Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region

Technical facts about this news release:

About the Object

Object Name:	30 Doradus
Object Description:	Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Position (J2000):	R.A. 05h 38m 42s Dec. -69° 06' 03''
Constellation:	Dorado
Distance:	170,000 light-years (52,000 parsecs)

About the Data

Data Description:	The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona).
Instrument:	WFC3/UVIS	WFC/IR
Exposure Date(s):	October 20 - 27, 2009	October 20 - 27, 2009
Exposure Time:	11.7 hours	2.6 hours
Filters:	F336W (U), F438W (B), F555W (V), F814W (I), and F656N (H-alpha)	F110W (J) and F160W (H)

About the Image

Image Credit:

NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee

Release Date:

December 15, 2009

Color:

The images are composites of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges for the UVIS image. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges from the IR image. The colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:

WFC3/UVIS Image of 30 Dor
F336W (U) and F438W (B)	blue
F555W (V)	green
F814W (I)	red
F656N (H-alpha)	orange/red

WFC3/IR Image of 30 Dor
F110W (J)	cyan
F160W (H)	orange

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