Ring-shaped nebula around SN 1987A
eso_06_sn-1987a_cc March 12th, 2010
Credit: ESO
High resolution NTT image of supernova SN 1987A taken from La Silla Observatory in December 1993. Seven years after the explosion of SN 1987A, the observations indicate the beginning of a more active phase while the interaction between the stellar material which was ejected during the explosion and the surrounding ring-shaped nebulae has started. SN 1987A is one of the most studied objects in modern astronomy and ESO telescopes have been observing it since its first detection, in February 1987. More information in ESO Messenger 75, p22: http://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.75-mar94/messenger-no75.pdf
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/06_sn-1987a_cc/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- 06_sn-1987a_cc
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2010-03-12T18:51:40
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/06_sn-1987a_cc/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- IRSPEC
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha + Nii
- Central Wavelength
- 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8650996296, -69.269003592
- Reference Dimension
- 4052.0, 4030.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2026.0, 2015.0
- Scale
- -7.46558842167e-07, 7.46558842167e-07
- Rotation
- 0.82000000000000051
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- 06_sn-1987a_cc
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/06_sn-1987a_cc.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-03-12T18:22:25+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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