NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes a sparkling supernova within its host galaxy LEDA 132905, located more than 400 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor. The bright white dot that you see directly in the middle of the image, between the bright center of the galaxy and its faint left edge, is the supernova named SN 2022abvt.
SN 2022abvt’s exact center can be seen as a small, but bright, blue dot. It sits atop a spiral galaxy, close to the glowing center and next to some bright patches of blue stars in the galaxy. You can also see a small number of more minor galaxies around the comparatively large spiral as small glowing discs, while further distant galaxies are seen as mere orange spots.
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Today, most supernovae are discovered by robotic telescopes that continuously scan the night sky. But some are still found the old-fashioned way, by careful observers who take repeated images of the sky and search for changes. SN 2022abvt was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. As the name suggests, ATLAS was designed to track down the faint, fast-moving signals from asteroids close to Earth,” said the ESA.
