N 63A: Chandra and Hubble
esahubble_heic0507f June 7th, 2005
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Warren et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/U. Ill/Y.Chu; Radio: ATCA/U. Ill/J.Dickel et al.
Chandra has imaged the glowing shell created by the destruction of a massive star. X-rays from Chandra (blue), combined with optical (green) and radio (red) data, reveal new details in the supernova remnant, LMC N 63A. The X-ray glow is from material heated to about ten million degrees Celsius by a shock wave generated by the supernova explosion. The age of the remnant is estimated to be in the range of 2,000 to 5,000 years.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0507f/
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
- heic0507f
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- DEM L 243, LHA 120-N 63A, SNR 0535-66.0
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Warren et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/U. Ill/Y.Chu; Radio: ATCA/U. Ill/J.Dickel et al.
- Release Date
- 2005-06-07T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0507f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Other, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Radio, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.9321870449, -66.0355292971
- Reference Dimension
- 2400.0, 2400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1201.0, 1201.0
- Scale
- -1.28161671972e-05, 1.28161671972e-05
- Rotation
- 0
- 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
- heic0507f
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0507f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-06-03T14:15:11-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
