Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
E0102, 1E0102.2-7219 |
| Object Description: |
Supernova Remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 01h 04m 1s.50
Dec. -72° 01' 55".7 |
| Constellation: |
Tucana |
| Distance: |
The distance to the SMC is roughly 210,000 light-years (64 kiloparsecs). |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughly 3.0 arcminutes (180 light-years or 56 parsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from proposals 12001: J. Green, N. Smith, E. Wilkinson, and M. Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder), J. Morse (NASA/GSFC), and B. Welsh (University of California, Berkeley); and 6052: J. Morse (NASA/GSFC), M. Dopita (Australian National University), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University), J. Raymond (Rutgers University), J. Hughes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Kirshner (Harvard University), K. Long (STScI), R. Sutherland (University of Colorado, Boulder), and F. Winkler (Middlebury College). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
October 15/16, 2003 |
July 4, 1995 |
| Exposure Time: |
3.4 hours |
47 minutes |
| Filters: |
F435W(B), F550M(V), F658N(H alpha), F775W(i) |
F502N ([O III]) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
July 31, 2006 |
| Color: |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS and WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Five filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
| F435W(B) |
blue |
| F502N ([O III]) |
blue-green |
| F550M(V) |
green |
| F658N(H alpha) |
red-orange |
| F775W(i) |
red |
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| Orientation/Scale: |
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