{"id":76108,"date":"2018-02-20T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-supernova-ever-observed"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:13:20","slug":"this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-supernova-ever-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-supernova-ever-observed","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Most Distant Confirmed Supernova Ever Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-supernova-ever-observed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supernovae are already some of the brightest explosions in the universe\u2014but there\u2019s more mysterious type, called superluminous supernovae, that can shine a hundred times brighter than the usual ones. And on August 22, 2016, astronomers spotted one whose light traveled over 10 billion years to reach us.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the event, called DES16C2nm, was exciting enough on its own since it would normally have been invisible to telescopes if not for the fact that the universe is expanding, thus stretching the light from the explosion into wavelengths we can see from Earth. <strong> <\/strong>More generally, these flashes can tell the story of our universe, like what kinds of stuff lives between stars in distant galaxies, and other quirks of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more distant supernovae we see, the more information we get on those stars.\u201d one of the study\u2019s authors, Charlotte Angus from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, told Gizmodo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-supernova-ever-obser-1823156522\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-the-most-distant-confirmed-super...1823156522<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supernovae are already some of the brightest explosions in the universe\u2014but there\u2019s more mysterious type, called superluminous supernovae, that can shine a hundred times brighter than the usual ones. And on August 22, 2016, astronomers spotted one whose light traveled over 10 billion years to reach us. The discovery of the event, called DES16C2nm, was [\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-76108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108","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=76108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76196,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108\/revisions\/76196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}