Rare first moment of stellar explosion captured by amateur astronomer

On: February 26, 2018

An amateur astronomer testing his new camera captures the moment a supernova became visible in the night sky, which has helped an international team of researchers to test their theory about the beginning stages of a stellar explosion.

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