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An amateur astronomer was testing a new camera and spotted it. Originally posted in Nature. (paywall, but you can capture some images from the page)
http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25151
His discovery, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, is a landmark for astronomy. Buso’s images are the first to capture the brief “shock breakout” phase of a supernova, when a wave of energy rolls from a star’s core to its exterior just before the star explodes. Computer models had suggested the existence of this phase, but no one had witnessed it.
Above quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ientist-had-ever-seen/?utm_term=.5d7443f35cd4
http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25151
His discovery, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, is a landmark for astronomy. Buso’s images are the first to capture the brief “shock breakout” phase of a supernova, when a wave of energy rolls from a star’s core to its exterior just before the star explodes. Computer models had suggested the existence of this phase, but no one had witnessed it.
Above quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ientist-had-ever-seen/?utm_term=.5d7443f35cd4