One of the most exciting reasons to keep looking up at the sky came to fruition last month… the kind of stuff that amateur astronomers dream of. On 19 May, one such astronomer in Japan happened by luck to capture the ‘supernova’ of a star in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101). It’s bright enough for even smaller telescopes to see, and it should be around for a…
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