Supernova 1996cl in Distant Cluster
In March 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2just happened to be pointed at the faraway galaxy cluster MS1054-0321 when it captured the light from an exploding star, called supernova 1996cl. The cluster is 8 billion light-years from Earth.
Credit:
Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | MS1054-0321, SN 1996CL |
| Type: | • Galaxies Images/Videos • Cosmology Images/Videos |
