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Hubble Reveals New Details in a Supernova's Blast Wave
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Hubble Reveals New Details in a Supernova's Blast Wave
Date: 05 January 1993 Satellite: Hubble Depicts: Cygnus Loop Copyright: J.J. Hester (Arizona State University), and NASA Show in archive: true
This is an image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on 24 April 1991. This research is being presented at the 181st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, AZ on January 6, 1993, by Dr. Jeff J. Hester, of Arizona State University.