Beautiful image of NGC 5216 on today’s astronomy picture of the day (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100702.html). I notice some new object at (13:32:39 62°42’52″). Does anyone know what is that? Supernova?
Supernova near NGC 5216?
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Looks like an elliptical to me.
What do you mean by new? That it was not there before in previous images?
It appears to be an image processing error, see http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20066
wow..look at the connection between the 2 stars(I guess)…
This is not a Supernova, this image is a collision of two galaxies. The same will happen in 5 million years between the Milky Way and our neighboring Andromeda.