A newly-discovered supernova is now a record-holder.
AsianScientist reports the supernova is classified as a "super-luminous supernova." It's 570 billion times the luminosity of the sun, and 20 times brighter than our entire Milky Way galaxy.
All that makes it twice as powerful as the previous record-holder. It's also 3.8 billion light years away, making it one of the closest supernovas to Earth.
It was discovered at an All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASASSN), and published in the journal Science. It's called ASASSN-15lh, after the science center.
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