Barred-Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1097 and SN 2023rve

A supernova caught in the act. On September 8, a type II (core collapse) supernova was discovered in the barred-spiral galaxy, NGC 1097, in Fornax. Roughly two months later, it was still bright though fading. Here is NGC 1097 imaged in a field of Milky Way stars in late October-early November with the supernova (labelled SN2023rve) indicated.
NGC 1097, a Seyfert galaxy containing a (now quiet) supermassive black hole at its centre, is worthy of closer examination. The spiral arms are adorned with numerous clusters of young blue stars and reddish star-forming regions, the lower arm is very distorted through interactions with the small peculiar elliptical galaxy, NGC 1097A, close by. The bar contains older yellow stars and has a prominent dust lane along its length which then breaks into several lanes through the bright, and complex, core (as revealed in the largest professional telescopes). Distances to NGC 1097, SN2023rve and NGC 1097A are in the region of 45 million light years.