... Week of March 10, 1997 . Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? You're not the first! ...
... rings were formed long before Sanduleak -69 202 blew up and became Supernova 1987A ... on the ring appeared to be brightening, and not fading like the rest of the ring ...
... As a matter of fact, it was an observation of the ring using one of Hubble's new instruments that showed us the ring still had some surprises waiting for us... and (you guessed it) more about that next week . ...
... shows the ring in three different types of light: The first is in the light of doubly ionized oxygen ([OIII] at 5007 Angstroms); the second is a sharpened version of the same image (note how the supernova debris in the center of the ring got noticeably ...
... The outer rings were too faint to be easily seen (remember, this was when Hubble's optics had not yet been corrected to their present clarity), but after a few years we were able to attain enough images to see the dimmer rings. ...
... No one knew of the rings before SN87A exploded because the star wasn't quite hot enough to excite the gas; it took the fury of the star exploding to light up the ring system. ...
... The rings are there, but the vast distance to the system dims the rings into ... rings, however, are denser, and the glow is more pronounced. 50,000 parsecs away, we ...
... Gaps in Saturn's Rings . Pluto Loses its Place . The Hoods of Hale Bopp . ... Supernova 1987A: The Inner Ring (March 13, 2000) . ... Supernova 1987A: The Three Ring Circus (March 6, 2000) . ...
... In a sense, we see the center of the Earth as "at rest". ... Because of friction with the rest of the Earth, this slowing of the bulge is actually slowing the rotation of the Earth! ...