Hi all,
Apparently, this is one of the closest supernovae since the invention of the telescope, see the article about HST and the Spitzer telescopes here:
http://blogs.goucher.edu/intheloop/9...red-supernova/
So, i thought it was worthwhile to find out the status of orbiting satellites that are involved with SN2016adj.
There are four satellites of NASA’s Great Observatories Program, three of which are still orbiting and operational. The Compton Gamma Ray telescope re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on June 4, 2000. The remaining three telescopes are now all involved with studying this supernova and includes:
Pre-explosion X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory -
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=8677
Optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope using pre-explosion images of 6 July 2010 and post explosion images taken on 22 February 2016.
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=8759
And, as mentioned above, The Spitzer IR telescope will be used soon.
Added to NASA’s Great Observatories are measurements from the Swift Gamma-Ray burst Mission, see here for the UV data from the Swift Satellite -
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=8662
So, altogether, that makes three of NASA’s Great Observatories, plus the Swift Gamma-Ray burst telescope.
From an astronomical Pro-Am point of view, you can’t get much better than that!
Of course, the HST data is the icing on the cake!