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    NGC 4993 seen with Hubble

    Date: 16 October 2017
    Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
    Depicts: NGC 4993
    Copyright: NASA and ESA

    The lenticular galaxy NGC 4993 is located about 130 million light-years from Earth. On 17 August 2017 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer both detected gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars within this galaxy. The event also resulted in a flare of light, called a kilonova, which is visible to the upper left of the galactic centre in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.


    Last Update: 16 October 2017

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