Gas Ring Around Supernova 1987A -- Feb. 2, 2000
stsci_2000-11b February 16th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA, Peter Challis and Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Peter Garnavich (University of Notre Dame) and the SINS collaboration
A 2000 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-11
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2000-11b
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, Peter Challis and Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Peter Garnavich (University of Notre Dame) and the SINS collaboration
- Release Date
- 2000-02-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 169,000
- Redshift
- 169,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-11
- 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
- 83.86661699465, -69.26975846459
- Reference Dimension
- 564.00, 664.00
- Reference Pixel
- 210.57967461047, -186.30743594365
- Scale
- -0.00000105932, 0.00000105932
- Rotation
- -68.26653739818
- 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 460.92 380.99 377.27 193.73 461.94 388.51 430.80 267.66 439.45 396.37 221.77 469.04 446.43 371.46 170.72 163.88 Center Pixel Coordinates: 282.00 83.86798221921 332.00 -69.26948598994
- 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-p0011b-f-564x664.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0011b-f-564x664.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/11
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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