This is an image from the Hubble archives that is never published based on this dataset. I really regret this, because I think it's a beautiful set of data with lots of potential. I downloaded the original fits files and used them to generate this Hubble palette image of this area. It reminds me a bit of the famous 'Pillars of creation'.
I started working on this image already 1,5 years ago, but using some new software and experience I could get a bit more of detail out of the image...
NGC 6357 is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. This nebula was given the name War and Peace Nebula by the Midcourse Space Experiment scientists because of its appearance. They said that in infrared images the bright, western part resembles a dove, while the eastern part looks like a skull. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by dark disks of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding “cocoons”.
This image was made using the following Hubble datasets:
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f502n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f656n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f673n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f814w_wf
HST_9857_05_ACS_WFC_F660N
NGC 6357 Hubble Space Telescope by
Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr
This is an image from the Hubble archives that is never published based on this dataset. I really regret this, because I think it's a beautiful set of data with lots of potential. I downloaded the original fits files and used them to generate this Hubble palette image of this area. It reminds me a bit of the famous 'Pillars of creation'.
I started working on this image already 1,5 years ago, but using some new software and experience I could get a bit more of detail out of the image...
NGC 6357 is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. This nebula was given the name War and Peace Nebula by the Midcourse Space Experiment scientists because of its appearance. They said that in infrared images the bright, western part resembles a dove, while the eastern part looks like a skull. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by dark disks of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding “cocoons”.
This image was made using the following Hubble datasets:
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f502n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f656n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f673n_wf
hst_09091_21_wfpc2_f814w_wf
HST_9857_05_ACS_WFC_F660N
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/avdhoeven/12222535093/]NGC 6357 Hubble Space Telescope[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/avdhoeven/]Andre vd Hoeven[/url], on Flickr