Tag Archive for 'SN 2020fqv'

This image from the Gemini North telescope shows a pair of interacting spiral galaxies: NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top). Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / J. Miller, Gemini Observatory & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab / D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Astronomers Capture Ongoing Collision of Two Spiral Galaxies

Aug 9, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one of the twin telescopes of the International Gemini Observatory, have captured a stunning image of a pair...

False-color image of SN 2020fqv in its host galaxy system NGC 4567 and NGC 4568; the location of the supernova is shown in the inset. The image is composed of a pre-explosion single-band HST/WFPC2 image in the F606W filter with the color information from ground-based images obtained using the Nickel Telescope at Lick Observatory. The image of SN 2020fqv and the area outside of HST field of view is also from Nickel. Image credit: Joseph Depasquale / STScI.

Astronomers Observe ‘Rosetta Stone of Supernovae’

Oct 25, 2021 by News Staff

A Type II core-collapse supernova called SN 2020fqv exploded in NGC 4568, a member of a pair of colliding unbarred spiral galaxies; the other member of...