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Supernova 1996cl in Distant Cluster

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esahubble_opo9826e August 19th, 1998

Credit: Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California

In March 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 just happened to be pointed at the faraway galaxy cluster MS1054-0321 when it captured the light from an exploding star, called supernova 1996cl. The cluster is 8 billion light-years from Earth.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9826e/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: MS1054-0321 • SN 1996CL
Subject - Distant Universe: Star > Evolutionary Stage > Supernova

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 56m 59.6s; DEC = -3° 37’ 23.8”
Orientation: North is 10.7° CCW
Field of View: 1.2 x 1.2 arcminutes
Constellation: Leo

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (I)	814.0 nm

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ID: opo9826e
Subject Category: D.3.1.8
Subject Name: MS1054-0321, SN 1996CL
Credits: Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California

Release Date: 1998-08-19T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9826e/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: I
Central Wavelength: 814

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Dataset ID: None
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 164.248162034, -3.62328604795
Reference Dimension: 732.0, 722.0

Reference Pixel: 366.0, 361.0
Scale: -2.76937906896e-05, 2.76937906896e-05
Rotation: 10.660000000000002
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
State/Province: None

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9826e

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9826e.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:51:36+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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