Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets On Deathbed
Gemini GMOS image of M-74 (NGC 628) with inset (left) showing pre-explosion star (enhanced) from Gemini image and (right) SN2003gd after it exploded from Isaac Newton Telescope when the supernova was 6 months old.
Credit:Composite by Richard Sword, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge/Gemini Observatory/Isaac Newton Telescope
About the Image
| Id: | gemini0401a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | Jan. 26, 2004, 8 p.m. |
| Related releases: | gemini0401 |
| Size: | 1996 x 2751 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Galaxies |
