Tags: Galaxy.
NGC 1187 is a spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. NGC 1187 has hosted two supernova explosions since the 1980s. In October 1982 the first supernova seen in NGC 1187 — SN 1982R was discovered at La Silla Observatory and in 2007 the amateur astronomer Berto Monard in South Africa spotted another supernova in this galaxy — SN 2007Y.
