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Zoom to Fading Supernova in NGC 2525
- Release DateOctober 1, 2020
- Science ReleaseHubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion
- CreditNASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), M. Kornmesser and M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble), A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and the SH0ES team, and the Digitized Sky Survey
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov