SN2001cw Ground Space (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

SN2001cw Ground Space

Caption

Two views of one of the six new distant supernovae in the Supernova Cosmology Project's just-released Union2 survey, which among other refinements compares ground-based infrared observations (in this case by Japan's Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea) with follow-up observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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SuprimeCam and WFPC2 via SCP

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