{"id":15042,"date":"2023-06-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=15042"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:49:42","slug":"2023-jun-06-a-new-bright-supernova-in-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2023\/06\/2023-jun-06-a-new-bright-supernova-in-the-night-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Jun 06 A New Bright Supernova in the Night Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bandar Seri Begawan – A recent supernova,<\/strong> designated as SN 2023ixf, in the spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major was photographed from Brunei Darussalam last night, June 06, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above: The recent Supernova SN 2023ixf (indicated by red arrow) in the spiral galaxy (Photo by Hazarry Ali Ahmad)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last month, a Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered a violent cosmic eruption in the Pinwheel Galaxy on May 19, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A supernova occurs when the core of a massive star at the end of its life violently collapses as it runs out of fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above: Supernova 1 year before-and-after image<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SN2023ixf is one of the closest supernovae to our Solar system which is approximately 21 million light-years from Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celestial outburst will be visible in backyard telescopes for the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bandar Seri Begawan – A recent supernova, designated as SN 2023ixf, in the spiral galaxy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[107,7,478,477],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-gallery","tag-galaxy","tag-news","tag-pinwheel","tag-supernova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}