Ultraviolet Emission at SN 2015cp (IMAGE)

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Ultraviolet Emission at SN 2015cp

Caption

In 2017, 686 days after the initial explosion, the Hubble Space Telescope recorded an ultraviolet emission (blue circle) from SN 2015cp, which was caused by supernova material impacting hydrogen-rich material previously shed by a companion star. Yellow circles indicate cosmic ray strikes, which are unrelated to the supernova. Unlabelled version here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pcxzGCRMjcBUyYP_qxTXg7gIzThIk-H8?usp=sharing

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NASA/Hubble Space Telescope/Graham et al. 2019

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