Supernova Remnant Menagerie

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES

09.21.2009

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*Description*: An image of the Supergiant Shell LMC-4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) as part of the Magellanic Clouds Emission Line Survey (MCELS). Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: LMC N 63A Object Description: Supernova Remnant Position (J2000): R.A. 05h 35m 43s Dec. -66° 02' 32" Constellation: Dorado Distance: The distance to the LMC is roughly 160,000 light-years (50 kpc). Dimensions: This image is 1.4 arcminutes (68 light-years or 21 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: This image is a composite of archived Hubble observations from proposal 6698 by Y.-H. Chu, R. Williams, J. Dickel , A. Caulet, and R. Klinger (University of Illinois at Urbana ? Champaign), and E.Gotthelf (Columbia Astrophysics Lab); and proposal 8110 by Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois at Urbana ? Champaign), D. Bomans (Universitat Bochum, Astronomisches Institut), G. Garcia-Segura (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), A. Laval (Observatoire de Marseille), S. Points (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Obs.), M. Rosado (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), K. Weis (Universitat Bochum, Astronomisches Institut), and H. Yang (Rice University). The main science team is composed of Y.-H. Chu, R. Williams, and J. Dickel (University of Illinois at Urbana ? Champaign). Instrument: WFPC2 Exposure Date(s): October 8, 1997 and September 12, 2000 Exposure Time: 1.3 hours Filters: F502N ([O III]), F656N (Hα), F673N ([S II]) About the Image Image Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Release Date: June 7, 2005 Orientation: Supernova Remnant N 63A Menagerie [ http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2005/15/images/a/formats/compass_large_web.jpg ] What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] *News Release Number:*: STScI-2005-15d

NASA Identifier: SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-2005-15d

• Date Taken: 09.21.2009
• Date Posted: 10.10.2012 11:26
• Photo ID: 686416
• Resolution: 1536x1536
• Size: 805.86 KB
• Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US