Astronomers have identified and found the farthest supernova explosion of a supernova explosion also become the oldest ever found. Supernova explosion called SN SCP-0401 (Mingus) is within about 10 billion light years away, which means only 3.7 billion years after the big bang explosion almighty. "This is the most distant supernova ever found," said David Rubin, a member of the international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), based at Berkeley Lab.
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Supernova is included into the category Ia supernovae coming from a white dwarf reaches a critical mass and explodes in a gigantic thermonuclear explosion. Actually, this supernova was discovered by the Hubble telescope in 2004, but has not clearly identified until a new camera was installed instruments to clarify the Hubble telescope observations.
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