NASA Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion
esahubble_opo0530a October 4th, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The gas is a supernova remnant, cataloged as N132D, ejected from the explosion of a massive star that occurred some 3,000 years ago. This titanic explosion took place in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby neighbor galaxy of our own Milky Way.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0530a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0530a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, N 132D
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )
- Release Date
- 2005-10-04T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0530a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from the LMC
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- Z, I, H-alpha + Nii, V, B, -
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 81.2570629161, -69.6424963078
- Reference Dimension
- 3828.0, 3133.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1915.0, 1567.5
- Scale
- -1.3900263099e-05, 1.3900263099e-05
- Rotation
- -128.04000000000005
- 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
- opo0530a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0530a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-09-26T13:19:34-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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