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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Alan Martin

Nasa’s Hubble telescope captures image of supernova from over 11 billion years ago

More than 11 billion years ago, around 21 billion light-years from Earth, a red supergiant over 500 times larger than the sun exploded.

The Hubble telescope captured amazing images of this distant supernova, but they have only just come to light thanks to a team of scientists at the University of Minnesota.

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