Brightest supernova in decades serves up cosmic clues for astronomers

While I am waiting today to get the ok to post a little something happening in the near future with our Super Stah , decided I would post something that happened 21 million light years away. From EARTHSKY. Aggieland–Tuesday night, Aug. 30–Season 39 of MSC OPAS began with perhaps the best season opener ever, a thank-you gift to patrons who've been there from the beginning. That's Event with a capital E, because when you get a talent such as Steve Martin A cataclysmic spectacle that occurred 21 million years ago is visible in the night sky this weekend. The galaxy in which this supernova is located, M101, has a linear diameter of more than 170000 light-years, making it among the biggest disk galaxies known. And it is located at a distance of about 24 million light-years, Hallyu stars Supernova have stunned

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