Oxygen-Rich Supernova
esahubble_opo9513a April 10th, 1995
Credit: Jon A. Morse (STScI), William P. Blair (PI; JHU), Michael A. Dopita (MSSSO), Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard), Knox S. Long (STScI), Jon A. Morse (STScI), John C. Raymond (SAO), Ralph S. Sutherland (UC-Boulder), P. Frank Winkler (Middlebury) and NASA/ESA
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3, 000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169, 000 light-years away in the satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9513a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9513a
- Subject Category
- C.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, N132D, Supernova Remnant
- Credits
- Jon A. Morse (STScI), William P. Blair (PI; JHU), Michael A. Dopita (MSSSO), Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard), Knox S. Long (STScI), Jon A. Morse (STScI), John C. Raymond (SAO), Ralph S. Sutherland (UC-Boulder), P. Frank Winkler (Middlebury) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1995-04-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9513a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, OIII, OII
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 81.2505441159, -69.6394948773
- Reference Dimension
- 630.0, 630.0
- Reference Pixel
- 315.0, 315.0
- Scale
- -2.75140118798e-05, 2.75140118798e-05
- Rotation
- 12.360000000000019
- 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
- opo9513a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9513a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:43:50+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
