Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
LMC N 49, DEM L 190 |
| Object Description: |
Supernova Remnant |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 05h 25m 57s.3
Dec. -66° 05' 20" |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
The distance to the LMC is roughly 160,000 light-years (50 kpc). |
| Dimensions: |
The image is roughly 1.9 arcminutes (91 light-years or 28 parsecs) across. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image is a composite of archived Hubble observations from proposal 8114 by Y.-H. Chu (UIUC), R. Williams (UMASS), J. Dickel (UIUC), A. Caulet (ESO), R. Klinger (UIUC), E.Gotthelf (Columbia Astrophysics Lab); proposal 6827 by S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), M. H. van Kerkwijk (U. of Toronto), R. Danner (JPL), T. Murakami (Kanazawa Univ. Japan); and proposal 6777 by R. Rothschild, D. Marsden, R. Cohen (UCSD). |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
November 14, 1998, April 27, 1999, July 14, 2000 |
| Exposure Time: |
3.1 hours |
| Filters: |
F502N ([O III]), F656N (Hα), F673N ([S II]), F814W (I), F547M (Strömgren y) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
July 3, 2003 |
| Orientation: |
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