Located 70 million light years away, images from the Hubble telescope have been gathered in a starburst movie that disappears in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. Specifically, supernova SN 2018gv.
Hubble astronomers were using the supernova as part of a program to precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe.
SN 2018gv
Over the past 30 years, Hubble has helped dramatically improve the accuracy of the universe's expansion rate, and can also provide us with spectacular images.
The time-lapse that you can see below covers almost a year. According to the Nobel Prize Adam Riess from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland:
No terrestrial fireworks display can compete with this supernova, captured in its faded glory by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The type of supernova seen in this sequence originated from a consumed star, a white dwarf located in a nearby binary system.
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This spectacular 'time-lapse' of a supernova exists thanks to Hubble
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