Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
SN1987A |
| Object Description: |
Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 05h 35m 28s.26
Dec. -69° 16' 13".0 |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
Approximately 160,000 light-years away (49 kiloparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
Each single image of the SN1987A ring is roughly 2.6 arcseconds
wide.
At the distance of the LMC, this represents 2 light-years (0.6 parsecs). |
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| About the Data |
Instruments/
Exposure Dates: |
WFPC2: 1994: Sept. 24; 1995: Mar. 5; 1996: Feb. 6; 1997: Jul. 10; 1998: Feb. 6; 1999: Jan. 8, Apr. 21; 2000: Feb. 2., Jun. 16, Nov. 14; 2001: Mar. 23, Dec. 7; ACS: 2003: Jan. 5, Aug 12, Nov. 28 |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, P. Challis, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics) and B. Sugerman (STScI) |
| Release Date: |
February 19, 2004 |
| Orientation: |
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