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PostSubject: Newly discovered supernova the biggest and brightest explosion ever seen    Newly discovered supernova the biggest and brightest explosion ever seen  Icon_minitimeThu Jan 14, 2016 6:30 pm

Astronomers have found a distant supernova, or exploded star, 20 times brighter than the Milky Way galaxy and 570 billion times brighter than our sun, according to research published on Thursday.

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The massive supernova is about 3.8 billion light-years away in a galaxy roughly three times the size of the Milky Way, scientists wrote in a report in this week's issue of the journal Science.

A light-year is the distance that light travels in one year, moving at 300,000 km per second.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/newly-discovered-supernova-the-biggest-and-brightest-explosion-ever-seen-20160114-gm6b85.html#ixzz3xGSeLZaN
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