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"date": "2023-07-28T07:00:00-04:00", | ||
"title": "Hubble Peers at a Tranquil Galaxy", | ||
"canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-peers-at-a-tranquil-galaxy", | ||
"imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ugc12295_potw2330a.jpg", | ||
"imageAlt": "A spiral galaxy directly face-on: Two bright spiral arms extend from a bar, which shines from the center. Fainter arms branch off from these, studded with bright-blue patches of star formation. Small, distant galaxies dotted around on a dark background.", | ||
"author": "Andrea Gianopoulos" | ||
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The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA [Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html). This galaxy lies around 192 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces and is almost face-on when viewed from Earth, displaying a bright central bar and tightly wound spiral arms. | ||
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Despite its tranquil appearance, UGC 12295 played host to a catastrophically violent explosion – a supernova – detected in 2015. Supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars and are responsible for forging many of the elements found here on Earth. | ||
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Two different teams of astronomers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to observe UGC 12295 and sift through the wreckage of this vast stellar explosion. The first team examined the supernova’s detritus to better understand the evolution of matter in our universe. | ||
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The second team of astronomers also explored the aftermath of UGC 12295’s supernova, but their investigation focused on returning to the sites of some of the best-studied nearby earlier supernovae. Hubble’s keen vision can reveal lingering traces of these energetic events, shedding light on the nature of the systems that host them. | ||
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_**Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA) | ||
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, J. Lyman**_ | ||
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#### **_Media Contact:_** | ||
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**_Claire Andreoli_** | ||
**_NASA's_** [**_Goddard Space Flight Center_**](http://www.nasa.gov/goddard), **_Greenbelt, MD_** | ||
[**_[email protected]_**](mailto:[email protected]) |