Huge bright explosion baffling astronomers
Monday, June 19, 2006
"An astronomical enigma has been spotted by a team hunting for very distant supernovas for their studies of the early universe. At first glance, the object discovered on 22 February in the constellation Bootes resembled an ordinary supernova. But it kept growing brighter for much too long, and its spectrum was abnormal." Perhaps the best explanation is a colossal supernova at the extreme edge of the universe.
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