Thursday, April 4, 2013

Oldest Supernova

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the oldest, and therefore most distant, supernova yet found.  The big explosion occurred more than 10 billion years ago.

Astronomers say it was a Type 1a supernova, and one of several things they want to learn is whether that type blast was of the same order of magnitude then as they are now.

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