Hubble Space Telescope resolves gaseous ring around supernova
esahubble_opo9007a August 29th, 1990
Credit: NASA and ESA
HST has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of 0.1 arc second, a mysterious elliptical ring of material around the remnants of Supernova 1987A. In this image, taken with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on August 23, 1990 the ring appears as a yellow ellipse. The tightly knotted debris from the stellar explosion appears as a red blob near the center of the ring. The blue stars to the left and right of the ring are not associated with the supernova.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9007a/
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
- opo9007a
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- LMC SN, SN 1987A
- Credits
- NASA and ESA
- Release Date
- 1990-08-29T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9007a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- FOC
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 500
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8663091174, -69.2697285247
- Reference Dimension
- 1461.0, 1158.0
- Reference Pixel
- 730.5, 579.0
- Scale
- -1.2266773687e-06, 1.2266773687e-06
- Rotation
- -33.019999999999975
- 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
- opo9007a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9007a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:31:18+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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