A bright supernova in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403
esahubble_opo0423a September 2nd, 2004
Credit: NASA, ESA, A.V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), et al.
The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar blast, called a supernova. The supernova is so bright in this image that it easily could be mistaken for a foreground star in our Milky Way Galaxy. And yet, this supernova, called SN 2004dj, resides far beyond our galaxy. Its home is in the outskirts of NGC 2403, a galaxy located 11 million light-years from Earth. Although the supernova is far from Earth, it is the closest stellar explosion discovered in more than a decade.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0423a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0423a
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8 C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2403, SN 2004dj
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, A.V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), et al.
- Release Date
- 2004-09-02T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0423a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 606, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 114.2435409, 65.6023413
- Reference Dimension
- 3880.0, 3952.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1941.0, 1977.0
- Scale
- 1.38744347817e-05, 1.39241125475e-05
- Rotation
- -140
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo0423a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0423a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2004-08-30T11:51:13-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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