DECam Images RCW 86, Remains of Supernova Witnessed in 185
noirlab_noirlab2307a March 1st, 2023
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAT.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
The tattered shell of the first-ever recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. A ring of glowing debris is all that remains of a white dwarf star that exploded more than 1800 years ago when it was recorded by Chinese astronomers as a ‘guest star’. This special image, which covers an impressive 45 arcminutes on the sky, gives a rare view of the entirety of this supernova remnant.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2307a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2307a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- RCW 86
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAT.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2023-03-01T11:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2307a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- N662, i, i, g, g
- Central Wavelength
- 662, 784, 784, 473, 473
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 220.749008184, -62.5693114369
- Reference Dimension
- 13546.0, 10647.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6773.5, 5323.0
- Scale
- -7.49978202189e-05, 7.50007047162e-05
- Rotation
- 90.004674164376
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noirlab2307a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2307a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-01-14T01:13:33+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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