A three-ringed circus
esahubble_opo9808g February 10th, 1998
Credit: P. Challis (CfA)
This Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in February 1994 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows the full system of three rings of glowing gas surrounding supernova 1987A. Located in a small galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, the supernova is a massive star that exploded in about 165, 000 BC, but its light didn't arrive here until February 1987.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9808g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9808g
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A
- Credits
- P. Challis (CfA)
- Release Date
- 1998-02-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9808g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to the LMC
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- U, I, H-Alpha +NII
- Central Wavelength
- 336, 814, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8670998929, -69.2702319044
- Reference Dimension
- 642.0, 665.0
- Reference Pixel
- 321.0, 332.5
- Scale
- -1.25894938591e-05, 1.25894938591e-05
- Rotation
- -90.220000000000084
- 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
- opo9808g
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9808g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:50:24+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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