'Assassin' Targets Supernovae in our Neighborhood of the Universe

January 8, 2015

'Assassin' Targets Supernovae in our Neighborhood of the Universe

SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY ARCHIVAL IMAGE OF A GALAXY SOME 400 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY
"Project's success spawns a new effort to study other local sky events. While many astronomical collaborations use powerful telescopes to target individual objects in the distant universe, a new project at The Ohio State University is doing something radically different: using small telescopes to study a growing portion of the nearby universe all at once."