Supernova SN 2014C

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nustar_nustar170124c January 24th, 2017

Credit: X-ray images: NASA/CXC/CIERA/R.Margutti et al; Optical image: SDSS

This visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, where astronomers observed the unusual supernova SN 2014C .

The inset images are from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, showing a small region of the galaxy before the supernova explosion (left) and after it (right). Red, green and blue colors are used for low, medium and high-energy X-rays, respectively.

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NGC 7331
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NGC 7331
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X-ray images: NASA/CXC/CIERA/R.Margutti et al; Optical image: SDSS
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2017-01-24
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2018-06-21T00:23:49Z
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