Images from the Hubble Telescope and the Swope Telescope.
Left: a Hubble Space Telescope image of the area near the galaxy NGC 4993 in April 2017. Right: an image of the same area from the Swope Telescope in Chile, in August 2017. The new dot is light from the colliding neutron stars.
Created:
2017
Credit:
<p>Hubble/STScI (left) and 1M2H Team / UC Santa Cruz & Carnegie Observatories / Ryan Foley (right)</p>
