Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton in the eastern province of New Brunswick was found something rare in the last week as she combed dozens of imaging results in a telescopic star constellations in a galaxy far away.
"RASC is pleased to announce the discovery of a supernova by an amateur astronomer aged 10 years and thus became the youngest who can found supernova," the association said in a statement.
While observing a supernova in the constellation 2010lt camelopardalis stars in the galaxy, a distance of 240 light years from Earth, Gray immediately told his father who was an amateur astronomer named Paul.
The discovery was later proved by two American astronomers reported to the Board prior to the Joint Center for International Astronomy for Astronomical Telegrams.
Supernova are massive stars that run out of fuel and destroyed by the burden of its own gravity and become very dense objects called neutron stars.
Then they issued a shock wave that blew the star, and generate a vibrating radiation circle.
Outbreak was the most amazing phenomenon for astronomers and can be known when the powerful explosion created the dramatic lighting that eventually fade.
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