SN 2005cs in M51 - after progenitor star's explosion
esahubble_opo0521d July 28th, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Li and A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
In 2005 a supernova exploded in the galaxy M 51, which is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. The type II supernova occured in the inner spiral arm of the galaxy ans was observed by German amateur astronomers. This picture taken by Hubble shows a closeup view of the supernova, which is visible in the center.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0521d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0521d
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- Messier 51
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, W. Li and A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2005-07-28T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0521d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- U
- Central Wavelength
- 330
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 1200
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 600.0, 600.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- opo0521d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0521d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-07-21T13:21:25-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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