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15 Distant Supernovae

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- Data DescriptionData DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.The optical data from several HST proposals include: 9425 and 9583: PI: M. Giavalisco (STScI) and the GOODS Project 10189, 10339, and 10340: PI: A. Riess (STScI) and the PANS Project The science team includes: A. Riess (STScI/Johns Hopkins University), L.-G. Strolger (Western Kentucky University), S. Casertano, H. Ferguson, and B. Mobasher (STScI), B. Gold (Johns Hopkins University), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Filippenko, S. Jha, and W. Li (University of California, Berkeley), J. Tonry (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii), R. Foley (University of California, Berkeley), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Dickinson and E. MacDonald (NOAO), D. Eisenstein (Steward Observatory/University of Arizona), M. Livio (STScI), J. Younger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Xu and T. Dahlen (STScI), and D. Stern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech). - InstrumentInstrumentThe science instrument used to produce the data.HST>ACS/WFC
- Exposure DatesExposure DatesThe date(s) that the telescope made its observations and the total exposure time.Various
- FiltersFiltersThe camera filters that were used in the science observations.Various
- Object DescriptionObject DescriptionThe type of astronomical object.Host Galaxies of Distant Supernovae
- Release DateNovember 16, 2006
- Science ReleaseHubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe
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Host Galaxies of Distant Supernovae
These snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal five supernovae, or exploding stars, and their host galaxies. The arrows in the top row of images point to the supernovae. The bottom row shows the host galaxies before or after the stars exploded. The supernovae...
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Feb 17, 2025
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