Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Supernova

Scientists have discovered what may be the closest supernova to Earth in the past 25 years and you can see it this week.
A team of astronomers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley discovered the violently exploding white dwarf star in the Pinwheel Galaxy, about 21 million light-years away.
The Berkeley Lab stated in a press release that it will be bright enough that skywatchers may be able to see it with a pair of binoculars. It is near the

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