Pan: Exploring Explosive Aftermath in Galaxy NGC 298 | Hubble FriendsofNASA.org: The spiral galaxy NGC 298 basks in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 298 lies around 89 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, and appears isolated in this image—only a handful of distant galaxies and foreground stars accompany the lonely galaxy. While NGC 298 seems peaceful, in 1986 it was host to one of astronomy's most extreme events: a catastrophic stellar e