Wide-field view of NGC 4993 (ground-based view)
Date: 16 October 2017
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 4993
Copyright: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This image shows the sky around the lenticular galaxy NGC 4993. Within this galaxy Hubble discovered the first visual counterpart of a gravitational wave event – the merger of two neutron stars.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
