A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning head-on view of a distant galaxy with tightly wound spiral arms.
"Despite appearing as an island of tranquility in this image, UGC 12295 played host to a catastrophically violent explosion — a supernova — that was first detected in 2015," ESA officials said in
."This supernova prompted two different teams of astronomers to propose Hubble observations of UGC 12295 that would sift through the wreckage of this vast stellar explosion."When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it dies in a dramatic explosion called a supernova. Supernovas are incredibly luminous and powerful, blasting large amounts of material into space and, as a result, believed to be responsible for forging many of the elements found on Earth.
The spiral galaxy UGC 12295 boasts a bright central bar with two distinct spiral arms and fainter arms studded with bright blue patches of star formation.
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