Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 6302 Hubble Image 2009

Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302

Original - NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Image taken by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) a new camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Reason

Amazing photograph from the upgraded Hubble Telescope.

Articles this image appears in

NGC 6302, RCW Catalogue

Creator

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

• Support as nominator --— raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 16:08, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
• Neutral Not the best of Hubble's work since there is a lot of noise and visible deconvolution artifacts around the brighter stars - compare with File:Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg which has a similar resolution in terms of pixels per square arcminute. On the other hand it is still a pretty amazing photo, so I'll chicken out and vote neutral ; ). Time3000 (talk) 17:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

This is using the brand new camera in the hubble, images of this quality of that object could not even come close this before. It's difficult to say "not Hubble's best work" when objects are varining distances, futher away objects are of course going to be more grainy than closer objects like the Orion Nebula (1,344 ly). Look at how improved the resolution this camera can produce. Although I respect your opinion, I thought I should point out the irony of saying not the best, when this object is much smaller and further away then the Orion Nebula and is using the most modern technology possible for the shot. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 19:08, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

• Support - Fantastic picture, loving the new camera in the hubble and looking foward to many more pictures like this. Thanks also for the link Raeky, I loved the old pictures as well, but seeing them side by side like that certainly puts things into perspective. Silvestra (talk) 20:01, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support Unbelievably beautiful. - Trevor MacInnis ^contribs 05:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support Beautiful picture. One of the first pictures from recently upgraded Hubble space telescope friendlystar (talk) 07:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:NGC 6302 Hubble 2009.full.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)