10-Year-Old Discovered Supernova

Alex

Kathryn Aurora Gray knew a superstar when she saw one (and with a middle name like that, how could she not?). The 10-year-old girl from New Brunswick, Canada, just became the youngest person to ever to find a supernova (with a little help from astronomer dad):

Since a supernova can outshine millions of ordinary stars, it can be easy to spot with a modest telescope — even in a distant galaxy such as UGC 3378, which is about 240 million light-years away. The trick is to check previous images of the same location to see if there are any changes. That’s what Kathryn was doing for the images of the galaxy taken by her father.

Nancy Atkinson of Universe Today has the story: Link (Photo: David Smith/AP)


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You describe Queen Elizabeth as 'the country's ruler'.

This is not so.

QE11 is the monarch of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland [southern Ireland - now called Eire - having gained independence many years ago].

The UK is ruled by parliament and politicians, not by the monarch.

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Leeds, England
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kj, what's confusing about having copies of the original? There were copies of the Declaration of Independence. And the Magna Carta. People did backups of important documents long before computers existed. Except Moses didn't have a backup of the Ten Commandments and had to go back for another original.
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@johhny cat. it is Queen Elizabeth in the bust, Queen Victoria was mentioned as the first queen to appear on the stamp.

Pretty academic really as it's Queen Elizabeth II and she isn't the countries ruler.
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