A Nearby Supernova in M51 . ... Credit Copyright: R Jay GaBany ( Cosmotography.com ) Explanation: One of the nearest supernovas of recent years was discovered late last month in the bright nearby galaxy M51 . ... The supernova , discovered originally by Wolfgang Kloehr and now dubbed 2005cs, is still near its maximum brightness and visible with a telescope toward the constellation of the Hunting Dogs ( Canes Venatici ). ... The progenitor star has been identified as a bright blue star. ...

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... 2007 February 13 . Vela Supernova Remnant in Visible Light . Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator . ... About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode , creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history . ... Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar , a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. ...

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