Open AccessThe brightest supernova
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48304_6.x
Subject(s) - supernova , physics , astronomy , astrophysics
Combined satellite and ground‐based observations have shown that a 2006 supernova was the brightest and most energetic explosion so far – and it may even be the explosion of a star 150 times the mass of our Sun.