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10-Year-Old Boy Discovers a 600 Million Year-Old Supernova

Friday, November 1, 2013 8:24

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Canadian Nathan Gray (right) is the youngest person to discover a supernova. The supernova candidate (left) is likely located some 600 million light-years away (image from the ARO--Dave Lane). Follow-up observations should soon be acquired to confirm for certain that it is a supernova, and what type it is.

Canadian Nathan Gray (right) is likely the youngest person to discover a supernova. The supernova candidate (left) is probably located some 600 million light-years away (image from the ARO–Dave Lane). Follow-up observations will soon be acquired to confirm the supernova’s class and nature.

Young Canadian Nathan Gray, age 10, has discovered a supernova candidate in the field of the galaxy designated PGC 61330, which lies in the constellation of Draco (the dragon).

Nathan made the discovery while scanning astronomical images taken by Dave Lane, who runs the Abbey Ridge Observatory (ARO) which is stationed in Nova Scotia. Incidentally, Nathan may unseat his older sister, Kathryn Aurora Gray, as the youngest supernova discoverer by a mere 33 days.

Nothing is visible at the location of the supernova candidate in prior images of the field taken over the past two years, or Digitized Palomar Sky Survey images.

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