SN 1987a in the Large Magellanic Cloud
esahubble_opo9904e February 4th, 1999
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, called supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. Astronomers in the Southern hemisphere witnessed the brilliant explosion of this star on Feb. 23, 1987. Shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, the supernova remnant, surrounded by inner and outer rings of material, is set in a forest of ethereal, diffuse clouds of gas. This three-color image is composed of several pictures of the supernova and its neighboring region taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2in Sept. 1994, Feb. 1996 and July 1997.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9904e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9904e
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, SN 1987A
- Credits
- Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
- Release Date
- 1999-02-04T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9904e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, H-alpha, V, OIII, B
- Central Wavelength
- 675, 656, 555, 502, 439
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8831774275, -69.2678390058
- Reference Dimension
- 2282.0, 2298.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1142.0, 1150.0
- Scale
- -2.73643290566e-05, 2.73643290566e-05
- Rotation
- -5.780000000000002
- 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
- opo9904e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9904e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:52:47+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
