Brad Tucker, an astronomer at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and University of California, Berkeley, told BuzzFeed:
A possible supernova was reported by amateur astronomers from Russia on 22 January and confirmed by multiple sources later that day.
It’s a type 1a supernova, a type of dying star that help astronomers to measure distances in the universe.
It’s the closest supernova of its kind in 30 years, so astronomers are getting pretty excited about it.
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