MyNameIsFred ( fred@beehaw.org ) to Space · edit-23 years agoAstronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1151file-text
arrow-up1151external-linkAstronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.comMyNameIsFred ( fred@beehaw.org ) to Space · edit-23 years agomessage-square6linkfedilinkfile-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 ( niktemadur@kbin.social ) linkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 years 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.