Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted since 1990, now offer an unprecedented glimpse into fast astrophysical shocks in the young remnant of supernova 1987A. Comparing observations taken in 2010 using the refurbished instruments on HST with data taken in 2004, just before the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph failed, …