esahubble_opo0109c April 2nd, 2001
Credit: NASA/ESA, Adam Riess ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD)
This photo is a close-up view of that region. The white arrow points to the exploding star's home galaxy, a faint elliptical. Its redness is due to the billions of old stars residing there.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0109c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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