esahubble_opo0908b May 7th, 2009
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 3021. This was one of several hosts of recent Type Ia supernovae observed by astronomers to refine the measure of the universe's expansion rate, called the Hubble constant.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0908b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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