Supernova remnant menagerie
esahubble_heic0507a June 7th, 2005
Credit: Image Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu and R. M. Williams (UIUC).
A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded, spewing its gaseous layers out into an already turbulent region.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0507a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0507a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- DEM L 243, LHA 120-N 63A, SNR 0535-66.0
- Credits
- Image Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu and R. M. Williams (UIUC).
- Release Date
- 2005-06-07T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0507a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to the LMC
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sii, H-alpha, Oiii
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 656, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.9322468389, -66.0324712448
- Reference Dimension
- 867.0, 658.0
- Reference Pixel
- 434.5, 330.0
- Scale
- -2.778653411e-05, 2.778653411e-05
- Rotation
- 131.85999999999981
- 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
- heic0507a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0507a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-06-03T13:58:17+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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