Location of Tycho's Supernova in the sky (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic0415d October 27th, 2004
Credit: NASA/ESA, Digitized Survey 2 and P. Ruiz-Lapuente (University of Barcelona)
This area, two degrees across, is centred on the area where the famous Tycho's Supernova, also known as, SN 1572A, exploded in 1572. The region lies in the constellation of Cassiopeia in the northern sky. The image was composed from two exposure from the Digitized Survey 2. The red exposure is shown in blue and the infrared in red. In this optical and near-infrared image the supernova remnant itself is not visible.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0415d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0415d
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- SN 1572A, Tycho's Supernova
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, Digitized Survey 2 and P. Ruiz-Lapuente (University of Barcelona)
- Release Date
- 2004-10-27T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0415d/
- 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
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 6.50806261861, 64.1742330498
- Reference Dimension
- 6427.0, 7143.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3213.5, 3571.5
- Scale
- -0.000280099986658, 0.000280099986658
- Rotation
- 4.8000000000000034
- 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
- heic0415d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0415d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-10-27T16:40:56+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
