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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...