File:A magnificent view of AG Carinae.jpg

Original file (3,687 × 2,276 pixels, file size: 2.62 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Summary[edit]
DescriptionA magnificent view of AG Carinae.jpg |
English: In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty.
The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri. |
Date | |
Source | https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105a/ |
Author | NASA, ESA and STScI |
|
Licensing[edit]
![]() ![]() |
ESA/Hubble images, videos and web texts are released by the ESA under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license and may on a non-exclusive basis be reproduced without fee provided they are clearly and visibly credited. Detailed conditions are below; see the ESA copyright statement for full information. For images created by NASA or on the hubblesite.org website, or for ESA/Hubble images on the esahubble.org site before 2009, use the {{PD-Hubble}} tag.
Conditions:
Notes:
|
![]() |


- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 22:17, 29 December 2021 | ![]() | 3,687 × 2,276 (2.62 MB) | Yann (talk | contribs) | original HR, 98% compression |
18:25, 26 April 2021 | ![]() | 3,687 × 2,276 (966 KB) | Pandreve (talk | contribs) | Uploaded a work by NASA, ESA and STScI from https://esahubble.org/images/heic2105a/ with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Talk:AG Carinae
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Recognized content
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Recognized astronomy content
- List of Hubble anniversary images
- User talk:TheFreeWorld
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs/72
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/AG Carinae
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/January-2022
- Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2023
- Template:POTD/2023-10-11
- Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 October 11
- Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 October 11b
- Usage on ro.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ur.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Image title | In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty. The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri. |
---|---|
Author | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach |
User comments | In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty. The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri. |
Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA and STScI |
Date and time of data generation | 00:00, 29 December 2021 |
Short title | Hubble Celebrates its 31st anniversary with a magnificent view o |
Source | ESA/Hubble |
JPEG file comment | In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty. The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri. |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | GIMP 2.10.8 |
File change date and time | 23:16, 29 December 2021 |
Exif version | 2.31 |
Color space | sRGB |
Keywords | AG Carinae |
IIM version | 4 |