Schuyler

It is absolutely essential to determine the stellar origins of supernovae, i.e., their progenitors or progenitor systems. I will briefly review what we know about the progenitors of supernovae beyond the Local Group from their direct identification in high spatial resolution pre-explosion images, primarily obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. I will also touch on attempts to recover a surviving companion in core-collapse progenitor binary systems, particularly for the stripped-envelope supernovae, and the implications from these searches.