Hubble has once again make their voices heard. Scientists with the space telescope managed to shoot of a supernova. Although exploding stars previously observed, this is a whopping four times to see completed. n image.
The image where the supernova in a total of four times on is to see is published on the website of NASA. The space agency shows an image in which a cluster of galaxies called MACS J1149.6+2223, is to see, one of which has to do with an exploding star. On the enlargement you can see that the supernova, which is located ‘behind’ the galaxy, several times is recorded.
The supernova, but less than four times is to see has to do with the galaxy on the foreground: that works as a so-called zwaartekrachtlens. The gravity that a galaxy exerts bends light and hence the observant are multiple ways to achieve. According to scientists, it is even plausible that the light from the supernova over a number of years, the earth reached by the lenseffect.
Astronomers have calculated that the supernova is 9.3 billion light-years from earth. That also means that the explosion is already 9.3 billion years ago. The galaxy in the foreground, just as the other galaxies in the cluster, it is ‘only’ 5 billion light-years away from us.
The image captured by the Hubble space telescope. Who is responsible for many beautiful pictures of galaxies and other objects in the universe.
