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The brightest supernova, ever.
Published on 7 May 2007 at 2:46 pm.
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At a NASA press conference today, astronomers released some information about the most luminous supernova ever seen. This supernova, SN 2006gy, was not the brightest in the sky, but rather it shone with the most light. The brightest appearing supernovae are the ones in our own galaxy. This supernova occurred in the […]
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SN 1987A, 20 years later
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 1:32 pm.
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20 years ago today, I was in graduate school. Though I didn’t hear about it for a couple of days, Ian Shelton had discovered a supernova. Then, I heard that the first supernova of the year, SN 1987A (the second, if another were found, would be called SN 1987B, the third SN 1987C, […]
