DECam captures NGC 1433 before supernova SN 2026ahvu
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgment: PIs: G. Narayan & T. Murphey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0
This image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1433 before the detection of supernova SN 2026ahvu. It was taken with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab. DECam captured this image as part of observations for the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a survey led by DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, conducted from 2013–2019, to investigate the nature of dark energy. Images of NGC 1433 taken with DECam after SN 2026ahvu was detected on 2 November are allowing astronomers to compare the environment pre- and post-explosion to learn more about the progenitor system.
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