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This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows Supernova 1987A and its neighborhood. The series of four panels shows the evolution of the SN 1987A debris from February 1994 to February 1996.

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English: This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows Supernova 1987A and its neighborhood. The series of four panels shows the evolution of the SN 1987A debris from February 1994 to February 1996. Material from the stellar interior was ejected into space during the supernova explosion in February 1987. The explosion debris is expanding at nearly 6 million miles per hour (about 2680 kilometres per second).
Date 14 January 1997 (upload date)
Source Hubble Reveals Structure Of Supernova 1987a Explosion Debris
Author Chun Shing Jason Pun (NASA/ESA/GSFC), Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
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The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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