2023-09-11 12:38:26
Galaxia IC 1776 – ESA/HUBBLE/NASA, A. FILIPPENKO
MADRID, 11 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776, 150 million light years away in the constellation Pisces, are located in a splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
IC 1776 recently witnessed a catastrophically violent explosiona supernova, which was discovered in 2015 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, a robotic telescope that scans the night sky in search of transient phenomena such as supernovae.
There is a network of automated robotic telescopes spread around the world, operated by both professional and amateur astronomers. They reveal short-lived astronomical phenomena, such as wandering asteroids, gravitational microlensing or supernovae, NASA reports.
Although not visible in this image, Hubble investigated the aftermath of the supernova, known as SN 2015ap, during two different observing programs, both designed to examine debris left by supernova explosions to better understand these energetic events.
A variety of telescopes automatically track the detection of supernovae to obtain early measurements of their brightness as well as their spectra. Complement these first measurements with subsequent observations, which reveal the persistent energy of supernovae, may shed light on the systems that produce these cosmic cataclysms in the first place.
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