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Supernova remnant Pa 30
No, this is not a firework display. This is Pa 30 — the likely remnant of the historic supernova witnessed in the year 1181, now captured here in unprecedented detail by the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory , partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This image was captured with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph ( GMOS ), and…
- Credit
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Telescope
- Gemini
- Instrument
- GMOS
- Seeing in
- visible
- Release
- noirlab2624a
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- NOIRLab release page