Cosmoview Episode 63: Supernova From the Year 185: A Rare View of the Entirety of This Supernova Remnant

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'.

Credit:

Images and Videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA, T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab), ESA/Hubble/L. Calcada, D. Munizaga, N. Bartmann
Music: Stellardrone - In Time

 

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Release date:March 1, 2023, 11 a.m.
Related releases:noirlab2307
Duration:01 m 11 s
Frame rate:29.97

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