First hint of knot STIS H-alpha
esahubble_opo9808i February 10th, 1998
Credit: George Sonneborn and Jason Pun (NASA/ESA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
This image from the Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) shows a new and unprecedented look at the 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/opo9808i/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9808i
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- George Sonneborn and Jason Pun (NASA/ESA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Release Date
- 1998-02-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9808i/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- STIS
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 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
- opo9808i
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9808i.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:50:27+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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