esahubble_opo9826f August 19th, 1998
Credit: Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California
In March 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2just happened to be pointed at the faraway galaxy cluster MS1054-0321 when it captured the light from an exploding star, called supernova 1996cl. The cluster is 8 billion light-years from Earth.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9826f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
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