It's important to be at the right place at the right time.
The Abell 370 galaxy cluster was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. That isn't a new feat. An image of an infant supernova that exploded just hours after the star's death was discovered by a team of astronomy researchers.
The supernova is exactly what the team was looking for when they were searching. We can see it from our vantage point, even though it's hidden behind Abell 370, because of the effects of gravity.
There are clues to a dark secret contained in a Cosmic "spider web" spied by the Hubble telescope.
Inputting the Hubble data into models and analyzing details in the images, Chen and his team determined that the original star that had gone supernova was likely a red supergiant with a diameter 530 times that of the sun.
The first image in the series was taken by Hubble just six hours after the explosion and the second and third were taken about 10 and 30 days after the explosion.
Due to the expansion of the universe, the supernova's age was estimated to be around 11 billion years old, making it one of the oldest and most distant ones.
The team hopes that their modeling will help the study of distant supernovas. They would be able to progress the study of stellar populations.
The paper was published in the journal Nature.
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