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Nearby supernova blooms into view

An international astronomy team reports the closest exploding star seen in four decades.

 

10-year-old girl discovers a supernova

10-year-old girl discovers a supernova

A 10-year-old girl from Canada has discovered a supernova, making her the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion.

 

Physicists replicate a supernova in laboratory

Physicists replicate a supernova in laboratory

This composite image of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space observatories, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, Spain. It shows the scene more than four centuries after the brilliant star explosion witnessed by Tycho Brahe and other astronomers of that era.

 

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