Peter Nugent, the senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory spotted an exploding star in the Pinwheel Galaxy. 2 days more to have the best view of the supernova SN 2011fe. Its going to be September 12 when the Supernova is going to reach the maximum explosion and star the night! Wondering what's behind this Supernova getting publicized so much? Well, I've picked up 2 very good reasons for this: one is its just 25 million light years away from us and the other, its earlier spotting. Nugent says," the supernova is getting brighter by the minute, and increasing in brightness by sixfold each night". One more good news for Amateurs is no fancy or NASAian telescopes are needed to observe this. A pair of high resolution binoculars or a 3 inch long normal telescope would actually suffice. The very first thing you have to do is spot the pinwheel galaxy and then the job is over, watch the spectacular explosion. Unable to spot the Pinwheel? No problem. Find out the Big Dipper's handle and focus to the last two stars, where to the north of these stars you can find the Pinwheel galaxy. Don't miss the spectacular show by VJ SN 2011fe. Happy Watching Amateurs :-)
Ref: Los Angeles Times
September 10,2011.
Pranu :-)
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