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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Supernova in spiral galaxy NGC 1559 on 6th August 2005, Kueyen Very Large Telescope image. The supernova is the bright star-like dot just above the galaxy. It is a type 1a supernova, produced when a white dwarf accretes matter from a companion star until it reached a mass at which it exploded catastrophically. NGC 1559 is a small galaxy some 50 million light years from Earth in the constellation reticulum.

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