a spiral galaxy with stars in the background

NGC 2525 Caption: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star. The Hubble snapshots have been assembled into a telling movie of the titanic stellar blast disappearing into oblivion in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525, located 70 million light-years away. Credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and the SH0ES team; Acknowledgment: M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)