What We’re Learning from the Brightest Supernova Ever Seen | SciShow News

It’s been a great week for space explosions! Astronomers learned more about the mechanism that causes novas by looking at the nova V906 Carinae, and the brightest supernova ever recorded shed some new light on pulsation pair-instability. Get the Vostok 1 pin here! https://store.dftba.com/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-vostok-april Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jheap.2015.06.005 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-04/msu-stl040920.php https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-04/uom-stl040920.php https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-04/uob-sds040820.php https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1066-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06333 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.4557.pdf Image Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/watchtheskies/new-nova-star-australia.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13578 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nova_in_M31.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nova-Eridani-2009-LB4.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/shocking-nova.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20184 https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/keck_ophiuchi.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/mini-supernova-explosion-could-have-big-impact.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/double-trouble-a-white-dwarf-surprises-astronomers.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11117 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.editted.PNG https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1627a/ https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Tycho_Nova.html https://science.nasa.gov/ems/12_gammarays https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11342 https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/supernova/en/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SN1994D.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/228969.php https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/228782.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sn2006gy_collapse_ill.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-webb-telescope-will-study-an-iconic-supernova https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Webb_Space_Telescope_2009_top.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11209