Supernova Split (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Supernova Split

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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the light of a supernova split into four images by a foreground elliptical galaxy embedded in a giant cluster of galaxies. The image combines data from three months' worth of observations.

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NASA, ESA, FrontierSN and GLASS

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