Dec 172015
 

Less than a month ago I posted about a gravitationally lensed galaxy many billions of lightyears away that had displayed a supernova in most, but not all, of the separate images, and that astronomers would be looking for the supernova to appear in one of the remaining images. The expectation was that it would appear in 2016… but the Hubble Space Telescope has just seen it:

Caught in the act

Hubble captures first-ever predicted exploding star

After word that there are people willing to spend millions to build museums and planetariums specifically to teach that the world is best explained via magic, there’s really only one thing to say:

gTRNR

 Posted by at 10:38 am