SN1987A

Esahubble_opo9103a_1024

esahubble_opo9103a January 16th, 1991

Credit: NASA and ESA

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a gaseous ring surrounding the supernova 1987A, which exploded on February 23, 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. In this image, taken with the European Space Agencys Faint Object Camera (FOC), HSTs 0.07 are second resolution reveals clumpy structure in the ring which indicates that the material is not uniformly distributed.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9103a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
SN 1987A
Subject - Local Universe
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Supernova
Esahubble_opo9103a_128
 

Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 35m 28.0s
DEC = -69° 16’ 11.3”
Orientation
North is 29.0° CW
Field of View
0.0 x 0.0 arcminutes
Constellation
Dorado
Esahubble_opo9103a_1280
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ID
opo9103a
Subject Category
C.3.1.8  
Subject Name
SN 1987A
Credits
NASA and ESA
Release Date
1991-01-16T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9103a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Instrument
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
83.8665640712, -69.269792343
Reference Dimension
3273.0, 2402.0
Reference Pixel
1636.5, 1201.0
Scale
-2.34606892598e-07, 2.34606892598e-07
Rotation
-28.980000000000008
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
opo9103a
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9103a.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:34:06+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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