A star exploded in a distant galaxy, and Hubble spotted it

[Mike Wehner]

• NASA and the ESA have released a timelapse clip of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showing a supernova slowly dying far away.
• The supernova took roughly a year in Earth time to go from incredibly bright to dull and dim.
• Whatever was orbiting the star when it detonated is probably not there anymore.

We already know that the Hubble Space Telescope is a ridiculously awesome piece of space-gazing hardware. It's produced countless stunning images of distant objects in the cosmos, and despite its age, it continues to wow us at every turn. But while many of Hubble's greatest images are one-off snapshots, Hubble's extended observations of certain areas of space can reveal big things, like a supernova explosion gradually fizzling out.

When stars of a certain mass reach the end of their lives they explode in a massive supernova detonation that destroys just about everything in the nearby vicinity. Now, NASA and the ESA have shared a stunning timelapse of a supernova explosion slowly going dark in a galaxy far, far away.

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