Hubble has imaged the galaxy LEDA 22057, about 650 million light-years away in Gemini, where a supernova called SN 2024PI appears as a pale blue dot near the core. It was discovered in January 2024 by an automated survey that scans the northern sky every two days. This is a Type Ia supernova, which requires a white dwarf, the dense remnant of a star with less than about eight times the Sun's mass. A white dwarf can explode only if it is in a binary system and pulls material from a companion until it becomes too massive to support itself. The resulting runaway fusion destroys it in a blast visible across many galaxies.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.