MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · edit-21 year agoAstronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1external-linkAstronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.comMyNameIsFred@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · edit-21 year agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
Heres another article that popped up in my feeds on the same event with a bit more detail too> https://astronomynow.com/2023/06/19/supernova-magnified-25-times-and-split-into-multiple-images-by-galactic-lens/
minus-squareniktemadur@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThe odds of a supernova lining up perfectly to generate an Einstein Cross right from our vantage point are… well… they’re astronomical, that’s what they are. That thing is so distant, I would’ve thought it would be a quasar, instead of a supernova.
The odds of a supernova lining up perfectly to generate an Einstein Cross right from our vantage point are… well… they’re astronomical, that’s what they are.
That thing is so distant, I would’ve thought it would be a quasar, instead of a supernova.