Hooray for Kathryn Aurora Gray
Posted 01.03.2011 at 5:54 pm
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Newest Supernova
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Here’s a good argument for letting your kids stay up late: A 10-year-old Canadian girl discovered a supernova over the weekend, the youngest person ever to do so.
Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, made the discovery under the supervision of two other amateur astronomers, according to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
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Science, Rebecca Boyle, amateur astronomer, astronomy, exploding stars, stars, supernova, supernovaeSupernovae are the death throes of exploding stars many times larger than the sun. They suddenly appear as bright points where no star had been observed before. Big, nearby ones can be seen with the naked eye, and they’re even easier to spot with amateur telescopes. The youngest one in the Milky Way happened about 140 years ago and is located about 26,000 light-years away. The new supernova is about 240 million light-years away, CBC News reported.
Camelopardalis, the giraffe, is a large but faint constellation in the northern sky. The supernova occurred in the galaxy UGC 3378.
There's no word on whether Kathryn’s middle name is an homage to the northern lights, but it seems fitting, doesn’t it?
[CBC News]
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I'm very happy for that girl. I know her family must be very proud!
*Oh my!*(George Takei voice) someone is jealous of a 10 year old girl.
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color me ignorant, but wouldn't an event that occurred 26,000 light years away not be visible to earth until um...26,000 years later? My brain hurts...
@xnijxnij: You are correct. As I understand it, the star in question actually exploded 26,000 years ago and the light began to reach us around 140 years ago.