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Supernova SN 2022 hrs in NGC 4647, Massimo Di Fusco
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Supernova SN 2022 hrs in NGC 4647

Supernova SN 2022 hrs in NGC 4647, Massimo Di Fusco
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Supernova SN 2022 hrs in NGC 4647

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On April 16, the Supernova 2022 hrs was discovered in the galaxy NGC 4647, an intermediate spiral galaxy about 63 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo, discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 15, 1784. NGC 4647 , along with M60, forms a pair known as Arp 116 visible in my photo to the right.
At the bottom right I added two enlarged crops to better highlight this extraordinary phenomenon, one of the real image and the other of the luminance in negative. In fact, in this image we are looking at a phenomenon that occurred about 63 million years ago, when dinosaurs on Earth were "just" extinct from a couple of million years.

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