Mysterious exploded star is 20 times brighter than the Milky Way

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the brightest supernova yet, briefly blazing fifty times brighter than the entire Milky Way galaxy. It’s a strange new way for stars to die.

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 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second.


Source: Gizmodo
Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 11:00