The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a distant galaxy during a short break from regular observations. Last Photo hubble He recorded a side view of the “amorphous” galaxy UGC 2890, located 30 million light-years away. Soil In the constellation Camelopardalis. like ours Milky WayUGC 2890 spiral galaxy spinning disk with central bulge and stars.

astronomers in 2009 perceived A “wonderfully energetic explosion” in a galaxy that was triggered when one of its stars, 11 to 15 times more massive than the Sun, ran out of fuel and exploded. supernova. (Of course, a supernova didn’t explode in 2009; we’re seeing what happened there 30 million years ago, given that the UGC is located 30 million light-years away.)

Astronomers used several European telescopes in Finland, Italy, Spain and Slovakia to study the supernova from March 30, 2009 – the day after its discovery – to November of that year.

They then recorded a supernova with a magnitude of -17.37 and noted that it was one of the brightest known. For reference, International Space station relatively shiny It is extremely bright with a magnitude of -6 and the sun at a magnitude of -27. Fourteen years after the explosion of a supernova, Hubble looked at the remnants of this violent cosmic event.

“Although the supernova long ago disappeared, Hubble recently interrupted its regular observation program to study the consequences of this explosive event,” NASA officials said in the image’s description.. It was published on Monday, April 3rd.

Hubble used the powerful Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to capture this image. The ACS instrument is capable of seeing distant sky objects in a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to near infrared, and shows galaxy UGC 2890 as blue interspersed with “dark red dust filaments,” according to NASA.

Using the ACS instrument, astronomers study regions near a star whose explosion ejected eight to twelve times its mass into space. Sun Researchers are making these observations “in hopes of revealing the age and mass of nearby stars,” according to the image’s description. They say this information will help them identify massive stars that will eventually explode in violent deaths like the 2009 event, and “detect stars that have survived massive supernova explosions.”