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| Subject: Newly discovered supernova the biggest and brightest explosion ever seen Thu 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.
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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