Stargazing audience dsicovers new supernova a billion light years away
The audience of Stargazing Live on ABC TV has discovered at least one new supernova — an exploding star — as part of the citizen science effort launched on Tuesday evening. Thousands of citizen scientists supplied more than 1 million new data points in a matter of hours, helping to classify 18,000 images from the Skymapper telescope at the Siding Spring observatory.
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