Heart of an Exploded Star Observed in 3-D
nrao_Gallery_nrao17cb12_still1
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); R. Indebetouw; NASA/ESA Hubble
Remnant of Supernova 1987A as seen by ALMA. Purple area indicates emission from SiO molecules. Yellow area is emission from CO molecules. The blue ring is Hubble data that has been artificially expanded into 3-D.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=7726
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- ID
- Gallery_nrao17cb12_still1
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- Supernova 1987A, SN1987A
- Credits
- ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); R. Indebetouw; NASA/ESA Hubble
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 1.68E+5
- Redshift
- 1.68E+5
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=7726
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ALMA
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nrao17cb12_still1.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-05-10T10:39:42-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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