Explosion of three Supernovas in Dark Emptiness of Space Captured with Hubble

IMAGE: ESA/ATG MEDIALAB/C. CARREAU

High resolution images from NASA’s space telescope, Hubble, showed explosion of three supernovas in dark emptiness of space.

The phenomenon occurred in deep and empty intergalactic space where the nearest neighbour was also hundreds of light years away. Robert Sanders at University of California said “nearly 100 times farther than our sun’s nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, 4.24 light years distant.”The fact these stars were so far away from their nearest neighbour does not mean that there was nothing around them at all. Some planets and asteroids may have been there but nothing prominent was seen which could face the fragments from this explosion.

Supernova stars are those which explode at the end of their lives but this particular situation is rare because it did not happen within a galaxy of millions of stars. Stellar trio is considered to be a solitary supernova and it is rare because starts like them fade in the emptiness of space. These stars only appear at the time of their explosion.

These supernovas occurred in solitude because the starts were left alone by their galaxies billions of years ago. This kind of explosion in intergalactic space is named as Type Ia supernovae and they are studied by scientist to get knowledge about cluster formation and content of this region.

Supernovas happen with the ultimate death of stars and they result in release of tremendous amount of energy. This energy is released within the galaxies. However, recent event of explosion occurred outside the galaxies and between three clusters having millions of galaxies each.

A telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii also sent pictures showing supernovas in 2008 and 2010 but these pictures were not clear like those of Hubble. Hubble’s pictures are sharper and they give detailed information to scientists. The earlier pictures did not show that whether the explosions happened in empty space or in faint galaxies. Hubble’s pictures have cleared every doubt about the surroundings of this happening thus explained that the starts were in complete exile.

Golter is a planet near these stars which is expected to have starless sky like many others lingering around there.