Supernova Remnant 1987A (IMAGE)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Supernova Remnant 1987A

Caption

This is a panel of images showing different views of Supernova 1987A. Left Panel: SNR1987A as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2010. Middle Panel: SNR1987A as seen by the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in New South Wales and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. Right Panel: A computer generated visualisation of the remnant showing the possible location of a Pulsar.

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Credit: ATCA & ALMA Observations & data - G. Zanardo et al. / HST Image: NASA, ESA, K. France (University of Colorado, Boulder), P. Challis and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

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