Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion

Oct 6, 2020 | Daily Space, Supernovae

IMAGE: Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star. The supernova appears as a blazing star located on the galaxy’s outer edge in the lower left portion of the frame. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and the SH0ES team; Acknowledgment: M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

In other news of the rare and extreme, the High-Z Supernova Search Team and the Supernovae H0 for the Equation of State (SH0ES) Team have released a remarkable time-lapse video of supernova SN2018gv. This type 1a SN is completely average and was generated by the explosion of a white dwarf star that had mass dumped onto its surface from a companion star. This video allows us to see how, over one year, this system faded as the energy and shock waves of the explosion radiated through surrounding material. 

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