NOIRLab noirlab2307: Supernova From the Year 185: A Rare View of the Entirety of This Supernova Remnant — Dark Energy Camera captures the glowing remains of the first-ever documented supernova. The tattered shell of the first-ever historically recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in ...

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Supernova From the Year 185: A Rare View of the Entirety of This Supernova Remnant
1 March 2023 — NOIRLab Photo Release noirlab2307

The tattered shell of the first-ever historically recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. RCW 86’s ring of debris is all that remains of a white-dwarf star that exploded more than 1800 years ago, when it was recorded by Chinese stargazers as a ‘guest star’.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2307/

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1 March 2023




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