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The new analysis found that the problem was not with the supernovae themselves, but with how their ages had been estimated.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

They found that the upcoming Cerenkov Telescope Array Observatory should be capable of spotting supernovae like SN 2017egm from distances up to about 500 million light-years away with roughly 50 hours of observation time.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Even from that enormous distance, it remains one of the closest superluminous supernovae ever observed from Earth.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Over the past two decades, astronomers have identified nearly 400 unusually powerful examples known as superluminous supernovae.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

But a rousing of the stellar fires in N49 is a simpler hypothesis: we are sure there are such things as supernovae.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan