The Hubble Space Telescope recently looked at NGC 1672, and caught a glimpse of a super-rare event, a supernova.
continues to churn out fantastic space images. The latest captured by the 34-year-old telescope shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in all its luminous glory., NGC 1672 features large, distinct arms extending from its galactic core. In NGC 1672’s case, the two large arms shine due to hydrogen gas illuminated by radiation created by infant stars nestled in the interstellar gas and dust, shrouded from view.
‘Hubble and Webb observations complement each other well, providing astronomers with a wide spectrum of light to study. Hubble’s observations showcase visible and ultraviolet light, while Webb’s combine near- and mid-infrared light. Dust absorbs ultraviolet and visible light, and then re-emits it in the infrared. In Hubble’s image, dark dust lanes are where starlight is absorbed. In Webb’s image, we see that dust glowing in infrared light,” NASA explains.
This makes Hubble’s new image spectacular enough, but something else is happening in the image: a fleeting cosmic view of a supernova. Of the six images Hubble captured to create the final composite above, one included a supernova, SN 2017GAX. This was a Type I supernova “caused by the core-collapse and subsequent explosion of a giant star that went from invisible to a new light in the sky in just a matter of days.
The arrow is pointing at the supernova, SN 2017GAX, captured in one of Hubble’s six images used to create the final compositeHubble images: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin , M. Zamani . | Webb image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee , Thomas Williams , and the PHANGS team.
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