Webb telescope may be watching one of the earliest supernovas unfold

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a supernova erupting just one point one billion years after the Big Bang, Live Science reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOne point one billion years after the Big Bang. So this happened a very long time ago.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe light is only reaching us now. We are the last people on the entire universe to find out.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBillions of years late. Everyone else in the universe already muted this thread.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's named AT twenty twenty-six abck, and at its peak it's about eight billion times as bright as the sun.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's roughly the whole Milky Way, says co-author Xiaohui Fan.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEight billion suns, and the official line from the dark is that we're monitoring it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBecause of the expansion of the universe, it looks six times slower than it happened.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentObservations ran seventy-one days, and only about twelve passed for the star.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwelve days. That's a star that finished the whole explosion before our group project got started.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the study went up on arXiv on September twenty-ninth and hasn't been peer reviewed yet. So the star's finished and the paperwork isn't.