Galaxy and light from supernova (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science

Galaxy and light from supernova

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Gravity from the MACS J0138 galaxy cluster curves space so much that light from a galaxy behind it is bent down towards us in several different ways. To the left is a picture of the cluster from 2016 in which light from the same exploding star – a supernova – is seen in three places in the night sky. To the right, is the same area in 2019, where the supernova is now gone. Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have calculated that it will reappear in 2037 (credit: S. Rodney (U. of S. Carolina), G. Brammer (Cosmic Dawn Center), J. DePasquale (STScI), P. Laursen (Cosmic Dawn Center)).

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(credit: S. Rodney (U. of S. Carolina), G. Brammer (Cosmic Dawn Center), J. DePasquale (STScI), P. Laursen (Cosmic Dawn Center)).

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