Will We Witness a Daytime Visible Supernova in the Near Future?

[Sobi]

I have heard that some centuries ago a supernova happened which its light was visible in daytime.according to the observations will have a such supernova in the next few years?

 

[phinds]

I have heard that some centuries ago a supernova happened which its light was visible in daytime.according to the observations will have a such supernova in the next few years?

Who knows? There is no was to tell. Could happen tomorrow, could be in a billion years (although likely sooner than that). Since there have been several during recorded history it's likely to happen in an amount of time that is long by human standards (possibly hundreds of years) but very near zero in cosmological time scales.

 

[davenn]

The last daytime one was the 1054AD one that produced the crab nebula
it was particularly noted by Chinese astronomers of the day ( prob many many others around the world)

yeah it could happen again any old time who knows when?

 

[rootone]

Looking at typical galaxies, supernovas in one galaxy occur about somewhere between one every 5 years to one every 100 years.
A lot of them will not be visible to us though if there is dust in the line of sight, which often is the case for our own galaxy.

 

[Vanadium 50]

There is no way that there is a supernova every 5 years on average in our galaxy, or even typical galaxies. We have been monitoring about 1/6 of our galaxy visually since 1605 and seen zero. We have been monitoring M31 and M33 on a similar timescale, and since one in M31 - in 1885 - and zero in M33. We have been monitoring the entire galaxy in neutrinos for 30 years and have seen zero core-collapse supernovae. It is difficult to support a rate of once per 50 years: once per 5 is unsupportable.

 

[SteamKing]

The most recent Type II supernova was SN1987A, which was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud just outside the Milky Way galaxy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

It was not visible during the day.

The 1054 supernova was reportedly quite spectacular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1054

Here is a list of the supernovae which have been observed over the last 2000 years or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernovae

 

[davenn]

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Here is a list of the supernovae which have been observed over the last 2000 years or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernovae

and that list is seriously incomplete
Rev Bob Evans of Australia has discovered 42 visual and another 7 photographically on his own
between 1981 and 2008
He holds the record for the largest # of visually discovered supernovae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_(astronomer)

Dave