Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova
Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 13:49
in Astronomy & Space
Like a surveillance camera photographing the scene of a crime before it happened, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has a priceless archival photo of the galaxy that contains a picture of the supernova 2005gl progenitor star as it appeared eight years before the star exploded.