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Thanks for the explanation about the horizontal bars! I mistakenly thought that the brighter spot on the ~1000 days later picture was the supernova and that it

by scld 4y ago

Thanks for the explanation about the horizontal bars! I mistakenly thought that the brighter spot on the ~1000 days later picture was the supernova and that it was mislabeled.

joshvm 4y ago
It's also worth considering the fact you can see a point source that's a similar brightness to the host galaxy which probably contains several orders of magnitude more stars. A Type 1A peaks at something like 5 billion times the brightness of the Sun.