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Researchers have finally witnessed, in visible light wavelengths, the “shock breakout” of a supernova—the exact moment when the expanding blast wave from a vanishing star lastly explodes the outer stellar layers and makes its outstanding entry onto the cosmic stage. The recent supernova results signify the proverbial needle in a haystack—an international group of researcher examined 3 years’ worth of data, in which Kepler taken pictures every other 30 minutes of some 50 trillion stars dispersed amid 500 remote galaxies.

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