Fading Supernova Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show
esahubble_opo0409a February 19th, 2004
Credit: NASA/ESA, P. Challis, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and B. Sugerman (STScI )
Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. Called SN 1987A, the titanic supernova explosion blazed with the power of 100,000,000 suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987. Although the supernova itself is now a million times fainter than 17 years ago, a new light show in the space surrounding it is just beginning.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0409a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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- ID
- opo0409a
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- IRAS 05240-6948, SN 1987A
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, P. Challis, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and B. Sugerman (STScI )
- Release Date
- 2004-02-19T21:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0409a/
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- Observation
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- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 625, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
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- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8665862341, -69.2697989619
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- 564.0, 444.0
- Reference Pixel
- 282.0, 222.0
- Scale
- -1.24369001516e-06, 1.24369001516e-06
- 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
- opo0409a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0409a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-02-11T17:21:12-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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