Supernova SN2014J (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Supernova SN2014J

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This image features a color composite of SN 2014J in the 'cigar galaxy' M82, 11.4 million light years away, made from KAIT images obtained through several different filters. The supernova is marked with an arrow. Other round objects are relatively nearby stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

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W. Zheng and A. Filippenko, University of California Berkeley

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