STIS Chemically Analyzes the Ring Around SN 1987a
These images from the Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) provide a new and unprecedented look at one of the most unique and complex structures in the universe -- a light-year wide ring of glowing gas around supernova 1987A, the nearest stellar explosion in 400 years, which occurred in February 1987.
Credit:
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, SN 1987A |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Supernova • Stars Images/Videos • Miscellaneous Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 170000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical H-alpha + NII |
Hubble Space Telescope STIS |
