esahubble_opo9719b June 9th, 1997
Credit: George Sonneborn (Goddard Space Flight Center), Jason Pun (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA/ESA
This image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2in 1995, shows the orange-red rings surrounding Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The glowing debris of the supernova explosion, which occurred in February 1987, is at the center of the inner ring. The small white square indicates the location of the STIS aperture used for the new far-ultraviolet observation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9719b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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