These heavenly bodies are in different galaxies, and their brightness exceed the sun billions of times.
News published photos taken by the astronomers, who managed to photograph the two galaxies of stars billions of times brighter than the Sun.
A supernova of stars seen in galaxies the Dragon and the lion.
In two distant galaxies the Dragon and the lion, astronomers noticed two supernovae flare stars, whose brightness exceeds the brightness of the Sun billions of times. The stars managed to make the astronomer Yevgeny Tikhonov from the Novosibirsk planetarium.
Photo of bright distant stars have already appeared on the pages of popular Internet portals for public access. To see a supernova specialists helped the telescope RC360, which by its size and power comparable with the large telescope located in Chile.
Made images astronomer Tikhonov managed to do some measurements. In particular discovered the brilliance of the stars was 16.0 and 12.97 magnitudes. The specialist also noted that the star’s help to determine the distance to remote galaxies.
