The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy UGC 5460, located 60 million light-years away, which has experienced two recent supernovae: SN 2011ht and SN 2015as.
The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to ...