{"id":202295,"date":"2024-12-24T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hubble-unveils-the-supernova-that-illuminated-a-galaxy"},"modified":"2024-12-24T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:04:14","slug":"hubble-unveils-the-supernova-that-illuminated-a-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hubble-unveils-the-supernova-that-illuminated-a-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Unveils the Supernova That Illuminated a Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-unveils-the-supernova-that-illuminated-a-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope showcases the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-spiral-galaxies\/\">spiral galaxy<\/a> NGC 337, located approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, also known as The Whale.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning image merges observations captured in two different wavelengths, revealing the galaxy\u2019s striking features. Its golden-hued center glows with the light of older <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-star\/\">stars<\/a>, while its vibrant blue edges shimmer with the energy of young, newly formed stars. Had Hubble captured NGC 337 about a decade ago, it would have witnessed an extraordinary sight among the galaxy\u2019s hot blue stars \u2014 a dazzling <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-supernova\/\">supernova<\/a> illuminating its outskirts.<\/p>\n<p>Named SN 2014cx, the supernova is remarkable for having been discovered nearly simultaneously in two vastly different ways: by a prolific supernova hunter, Koichi Itagaki, and by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). ASAS-SN is a worldwide network of robotic telescopes that scans the sky for sudden events like supernovae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope showcases the spiral galaxy NGC 337, located approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, also known as The Whale. The stunning image merges observations captured in two different wavelengths, revealing the galaxy\u2019s striking features. Its golden-hued center glows with the light of older stars, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}