Location of candidate progenitor companion to Tycho's supernova [WFPC2]
esahubble_heic0415b October 27th, 2004
Credit: NASA/ESA and P. Ruiz-Lapuente (University of Barcelona)
A Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of a small section of sky containing a suspected runaway companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The star is like our Sun except several billion years older. It is moving through space at three times the speed of the other stars in its neighbourhood. Hubble's sharp view allowed for a measurement of the star's motion, based on images taken in 1999 and 2003. The image consists of a single greyscale Hubble exposure colorized with the help of data from Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0415b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0415b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- SN 1572A, Tycho's Supernova
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and P. Ruiz-Lapuente (University of Barcelona)
- Release Date
- 2004-10-27T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0415b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/729/2/L15/pdf/2041-8205_729_2_L15.pdf
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- V
- Central Wavelength
- 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- D
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 6.344445503, 64.1350131233
- Reference Dimension
- 1600.0, 1608.0
- Reference Pixel
- 800.0, 804.0
- Scale
- -1.22826466042e-05, 1.22826466042e-05
- Rotation
- -0.19999999999999998
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0415b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0415b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-10-26T15:55:20+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
