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| Source: Sky and Telescope Credit: Purnendu Gupta |
What kind of “explosion” lasts for months and outshines a billion suns? If you haven’t guessed it, it’s the average garden variety supernova.
Above is my first supernova image captured from my backyard on the night of May 11-12, 2022. Known as SN2022hrs, it shows up here as a white dot between two galaxies - the elliptical Messier 60 and smaller spiral NGC4647. This light from sixty three million light years away, is also sixty three million years old. Breaking news from a time when dinosaurs had just vanished from the earth.
