Saturday, 7 March 2015

In a first, NASA spots supernova split into four images


Washington : Astronomers using NASA's Hubble space telescope have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The multiple images of the exploding star are caused by the powerful gravity of a foreground elliptical galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies. This unique observation will help astronomers refine their estimates of the mass of dark matter in the ...Read More

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