Knot in Ring of Supernova 1987A Grows Brighter
stsci_1998-08f February 10th, 1998
Credit: P. Garnavich (Harvard-Smithsonian)
A 1998 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-08
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 1998-08f
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- P. Garnavich (Harvard-Smithsonian)
- Release Date
- 1998-02-10T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 168,000
- Redshift
- 168,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-08
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 83.86715650528, -69.27054678861
- Reference Dimension
- 507.00, 508.00
- Reference Pixel
- -26.76480365989, 230.20747825302
- Scale
- -0.00000304500, 0.00000304500
- Rotation
- -70.98550084045
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 412.06 344.98 231.00 224.00 386.10 360.12 123.00 159.00 453.46 301.98 474.01 339.37 439.72 347.40 258.77 357.35 426.85 353.55 213.40 312.67 Center Pixel Coordinates: 253.50 83.86644366939 254.00 -69.26972904338
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9808f-f-507x508.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9808f-f-507x508.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/08
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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