Hubble Chemically Analyzes the Ring around Supernova 1987A (1997)

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*Description*: Outwit the computer virus that has scrambled the Hubble Space Telescope's Servicing Mission 3B. This interactive lesson is filled with video clips and up-to-the minute information from NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. It will challenge students to use critical thinking and reading skills to search for word and picture clues from the events of the 2002 Servicing Mission 3B. Their mission is to reorganize the sequence of events into the correct order. Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection Next release Previous release What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. a light-year-wide ring of glowing gas around supernova 1987A, the nearest stellar explosion in 400 years The long-slit spectrograph viewed the entire ring system, dissecting its light and producing a detailed image of the ring in each of its component colors. Each color represents light from specific elements in the ring's gases, including oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen, and sulfur. By dismantling the ring into its different puzzle pieces? its component elements? astronomers hope to put together a picture of how the ring was created. The picture on the left is a view of the entire supernova. *News Release Number:*: STScI-1997-14a

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