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Novosibirsk astronomer captured a supernova explosion

Новосибирский астроном запечатлел вспышку сверхновой звездыAstronomer photographed a supernova, which is located in the constellation Big dipper.

It was open in March 2016, but managed to photograph her just now.

The credit for this belongs to the young scientist from Novosibirsk Evgeny Tikhonov. With the equipment of the local planetarium, he was able to obtain pictures of the star which in the catalogues of astronomers has SN index 2016bk. It is interesting that it happened during the explosion, the brightness of which was observed at the level of 15.3 magnitude.

Heavenly body emits a pleasant blue light and clearly visible in the night sky.

It remains to add that in the galaxy, which was discovered star, in the last 100 years, astronomers have recorded five supernova explosions.

Новосибирский астроном запечатлел вспышку сверхновой звезды

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