absolutely BAFFLING and AMAZING!

This defies known physics and astronomers are scratching their heads.  Supernova as you may know are a very interesting cosmic phenomenon where a star collapses in on itself and then has a massive explosion.  There is one they just detected that has astronomers absolutely perplexed.  It is off their charts literally and they can’t explain how bright it is.  Here is a brief intro on what they saw:

A network of small, ground-based telescopes hunting the night-time skies for transient supernovas fished out a whopper — a one-of-a-kind cosmic explosion that at its peak blasted out more light than 50 times all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The object, which takes its name, ASASSN-15lh from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, was first spotted on June 14, 2015. A week later, astronomer Subo Dong, with the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, was looking at the object’s spectra, a chemical breakdown of its light, and realized something strange was going on.

Let’s find out more about this unexplainably bright supernova on page 2

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