esahubble_opo9714d May 12th, 1997
Credit: George Sonneborn (GSFC) and NASA/ESA
These images from the Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) provide a new and unprecedented look at one of the most unique and complex structures in the universe -- a light-year wide ring of glowing gas around supernova 1987A, the nearest stellar explosion in 400 years, which occurred in February 1987.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9714d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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