Location of candidate progenitor companion to Tycho's supernova [WFPC2]

Location of candidate progenitor companion to Tycho's supernova [WFPC2]

A Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of a small section of sky containing a suspected runaway companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The star is like our Sun except several billion years older....

By ASHESH DAS RUP

Location: SN 1572A, Tycho's Supernova, Cassiopeia Constellation

Tags: Hubble, Space, Universe, Nebulae, ESA, Cassiopeia