Boom! Distant star explosion is brightest ever seen
And it may be an odd type of supernova that has yet to be confirmed observationally.
An artist’s illustration of a brilliant supernova, the explosive death of a star. (Image: © Aaron Geller (Northwestern University))
This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a new study reports.
