Hubble pinpoints distant supernovae
esahubble_opo9802d January 8th, 1998
Credit: Peter Garnavich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the High-z Supernova Search Team, and NASA/ESA
These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint three distant supernovae, which exploded and died billions of years ago. Scientists are using these faraway light sources to estimate if the universe was expanding at a faster rate long ago and is now slowing down.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9802d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9802d
- Subject Category
- D.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1997CK
- Credits
- Peter Garnavich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the High-z Supernova Search Team, and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1998-01-08T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9802d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 675
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 253.250965391, 35.0630216599
- Reference Dimension
- 251.0, 249.0
- Reference Pixel
- 125.5, 124.5
- Scale
- -8.29720497712e-05, 8.29720497712e-05
- Rotation
- -46.720000000000006
- 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
- opo9802d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9802d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:50:00+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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