Has There Been a Recent Supernova in Andromeda?

[Thecla]

The frequency of supernovas in our galaxy is about one per century. Has there been a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy in the last 200 years?

 

[phinds]

do you not know how to use Google?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Andromedae

 

[Drakkith]

Wow that sucker reached magnitude 6...

 

[twofish-quant]

Yup, and it's really annoying that it didn't go off ten years later when we would have had photographic plates.

On the other hand, I know more than a few people that were annoyed that SN1987A went off when it did rather than a decade later when Super-Kamiokande was in operation.

 

[Drakkith]

Yup, and it's really annoying that it didn't go off ten years later when we would have had photographic plates.

On the other hand, I know more than a few people that were annoyed that SN1987A went off when it did rather than a decade later when Super-Kamiokande was in operation.

I'm going to be annoyed with Betelgeuse when it goes supernova 10 years after I die.