SN 1987a in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Depicts: SN 1987A, The Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC
Copyright: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
Shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, the supernova remnant, surrounded by inner and outer rings of material, is set in a forest of ethereal, diffuse clouds of gas. This three-color image is composed of several pictures of the supernova and its neighboring region taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in Sept. 1994, Feb. 1996 and July 1997.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
