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Pan-Starrs will repeatedly scan the same portions of the sky to look for changes, such as the supernova discovered during the telescope's test runs last fall.
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Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious «cosmic whistles» known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamma - rays than they do in radio waves and rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae in their explosive power.
Last year he used a novel image - stacking method to discover a supernova more than twice as old as Earth.
The supernova was discovered in July 1992 by Roberto Antezana of the University of Chile as part of a search being conducted there and at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Discovered as part of the SNLS — a five - year program based on observations at the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Gemini and Keck telescopes to study thousands of supernovae — the two supernovae could not initially be properly identified nor could their exact locations be determined.
In one early meeting, astronomy writer Christopher Crockett lit up as he told the story of the night supernova 1987A was discovered.
Astronomers don't yet know which particular conditions could have triggered such «extraordinary luminosity,» as the team that discovered the supernova writes in the 20 October issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
But in February, scientists discovered that stellar explosions known as supernovae act like particle accelerators, boosting protons» speeds enough to turn them into cosmic rays.
Aiming the 300 - foot at the supernova remnant known as the Crab Nebula in 1968, astronomers Staelin and Reifenstein discovered that the radio waves coming from the point inside the Nebula was not constant but pulsed.
Berkeley Lab is a member of the collaboration for ZTF, which is designed to discover supernovae and also to search for rare and exotic events such as those that occur during the aftermath of neutron star mergers.