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Astronomers compared multiple images taken up to one year apart and looked for sources that disappeared or appeared in those images. In all, they uncovered about 80 supernovas in a patch of sky only about the thickness of a grain of rice held at arm’s length. (4/5)
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“We are trying to identify whether distant supernovae are fundamentally different from or very much like what we see in the nearby universe,” said Justin Pierel, a NASA Einstein Fellow at STScI. (5/5) 🔭 🧪
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