Hubble snaps a seemingly peaceful galaxy. Don’t be fooled.

A spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus shines from a distance like bone china, a saucer daintily tilted in space.

This region of glowing stars some 184 million light-years from our solar system may seem the picture of tranquility, but astronomers have turned their attention to the dwarf galaxy to study the aftermath of a catastrophic boom.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of UGC 11860 from its perch in low-Earth orbit to study the remnants of a supernova. The violent cosmic explosion was first detected in 2014 by the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae(opens in…

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