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Palomar’s view on iPTF16geu — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Deep fields & lensing

Palomar’s view on iPTF16geu

April 20, 2017 · ESA/Hubble · Aquarius

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The Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain, California, created this wide-field view of the night sky. In the lower central part of the image scientists discovered a supernova explosion, being lensed by a foreground galaxy.