Background is NGC 2441, host of SN 1995E taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS)

Abstract of the light echo paper presented at the AAS meeting in Seattle, January 2007.

press release from the American Astronomical Society, Jan. 9, 2007

AAS poster (large version, pdf)

Images of the light echo included in the press release (pdf)

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Full Hubble color image of the host galaxy of supernova 1995E: NGC 2441 (jpg)

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Medium width B/W HST image of the light echo (jpg)

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Close-up view in B/W of the HST image of the light echo (jpg)

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Diagram explaining the geometry of the light echo (jpg)

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Radial profile of the light echo from the HST/ACS image taken in September 2006 (jpg)

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Radial profile of the light echo taken with the HST/STIS in 2001 (jpg)

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Expansion of the echo as a function of time with a fit to the theoretical expansion (jpg)

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