Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Less than half the predicted number of supernova remnants in our galaxy have been found – where are all the others? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Recently, astronomers spotted a supernova that was getting brighter after it had started fading away. The star that exploded was part of a binary system where the two stars orbited at a “medium” ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility, which scans the sky from the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, first detected the strange supernova in July 2023. Credit: Palomar Observatory / Caltech ...