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Ivan Farkas

Astronomers spot 'time-warped' supernovas whose light both has and hasn't reached Earth

An image of a warped galaxy being viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Two incredibly rare supernovas that erupted billions of years ago provide a unique opportunity to explain cosmology's biggest mystery — How fast is the universe expanding?

But there's a twist: Even though astronomers have already observed these exploding stars, we will have to wait up to 60 years for their light to reach us again.

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