Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
N132D |
| Object Description: |
Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 05h 25m 01s.40
Dec. -69° 38' 31" |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
The distance to the LMC is roughly 160,000 light-years (50 kpc). |
| Dimensions: |
This image is 3.2 arcminutes (148 light-years or 45 parsecs) across. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST proposal 12001: J.C. Green (Univ. of Colorado), J.A. Morse (NASA-GSFC), J.M. Shull, T.P. Snow, and J.T. Stocke (Univ. of Colorado), J.L. Linsky (JILA/Univ. of Colorado/NIST), K.R. Brownsberger, D.C. Ebbets, E. Wilkinson (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.), S.R. Heap (NASA-GSFC), C. Leitherer (STScI), B.D. Savage (Univ. of Wisconsin), O.H. Siegmund, and B. Welsh (Univ. of California – Berkeley), and A. Stern and J. Andrews (SwRI). This image also includes X-Ray data obtained from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Observation ID 1828. |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
Chandra/ACIS |
| Exposure Date(s): |
January 21/22, 2004 |
July 20, 2000 |
| Exposure Time: |
4.2 hours |
20.2 hours |
| HST Filters: |
475W (g), F550M (V), F658N (Halpha + [N II]), F775W (i), F850LP (z) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
October 4, 2005 |
| Orientation: |
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