Image from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (IMAGE)

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Image from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey

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(DECaLS) with cross hairs indicating the location of the AT2018cow event in the host galaxy, CGCG 127-68.

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Color image from the Imagine Viewer, created by Dustin Lang, for the Legacy Surveys project (see legacysurvey.org/viewer).

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