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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
WestportObservatory@vmst.io ("Westport Observatory") wrote:
There's been a supernova and WAS astrophotographer Carl Lancaster has the before and after of this star blowing it's guts out into the universe, erupting in "nearby" galaxy NGC 7331, 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Officially known as SN 2025rbs, it is a type 1A supernova, a type of supernova that occurs in binary systems in which one of the stars is a white dwarf. #SN2025rbs #Supernova #WestportAstronomicalSociety
