{"id":118481,"date":"2021-01-13T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/from-supernova-to-something-much-more-intriguing-at-the-core-of-galaxy-253-3"},"modified":"2021-01-13T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:22:26","slug":"from-supernova-to-something-much-more-intriguing-at-the-core-of-galaxy-253-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/from-supernova-to-something-much-more-intriguing-at-the-core-of-galaxy-253-3","title":{"rendered":"From supernova to something much more intriguing at the core of galaxy 253\u20133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOxuTLPAlzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On 14 November 2014, a bright flash flagged the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, or ASAS-SN \u2014 a global network of 20 telescopes managed at Ohio State University in the U.S. The flash originated in galaxy ESO 253\u20133, located 570 million light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden burst of energy was examined by astronomers and categorized as a likely supernova and assigned the event designation ASASSN-14ko. Six years later, Anna Payne, a NASA Graduate Fellow at the University of Hawai\u2019i at M\u0101noa, discovered it was something much different.<\/p>\n<p>While sifting through ASAS-SN data on active galactic nuclei, she discovered a previously unnoticed periodic series of bright flares emanating from galaxy ESO 253\u20133 \u2014 repeating in such a way that led directly back to ASASSN-14ko as the point of first detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 November 2014, a bright flash flagged the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, or ASAS-SN \u2014 a global network of 20 telescopes managed at Ohio State University in the U.S. The flash originated in galaxy ESO 253\u20133, located 570 million light-years away. The sudden burst of energy was examined by astronomers and categorized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}