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Two Stargazing Live confirmed type Ia supernova http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11667 and http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11671
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The team at the Skymapper Telescope in Siding Spring, Australia have joined forces with ABC Stargazing Live to bring you Supernova Sighting. We need your help to look through images of the night sky for exploding stars. These supernovae events can get so bright that they outshine their host galaxies for a few days or weeks. This means that a recent image of that part of the sky can look very different to an image taken a couple of months ago. We have software that compares these images, but sometimes it finds "bogus" transients that are actually artefacts. Discovering a certain type of supernova allows astronomers to refine their measurements of many fundamental parameters of the Universe, such as its age. Will you be lucky enough to make a supernova sighting?
Background image: The SkyMapper Telescope. Credit: Josh Calcino.