Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory

This image was created from HST observations from the following proposal: 9729: P. Ruiz-Lapuente (Univ. of Barcelona), A. Burrows (Univ. of Arizona), R. Canal (Univ. of Barcelona), R. Chornock Univ. of California – Berkeley), F. Comeron (European Southern Obs.), A. Filippenko (Univ. of California – Berkeley), and R. Mignani (European Southern Obs.).

The science team is composed of P. Ruiz-Lapuente (Univ. of Barcelona), F. Comeron (European Southern Observatory), J. Mendez (Univ. of Barcelona and Isaac Newton Group), R. Canal (Univ. of Barcelona), S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge), A. Filippenko (Univ. of California – Berkeley), R. Kurucz (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics), R. Chornock (Univ. of California – Berkeley), R. Foley (Univ. of California – Berkeley), V. Stanishev (Stockholm Univ.), and R. Ibata (Obs. of Strasbourg).