Ancient astronomers saw a supernova. Scientists just captured the explosion.

Astronomers used a camera mounted to the National Science Foundation’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope to view RCW 86, a ring of debris from a violent supernova eruption 1,800 years ago. Chinese scientists documented the historic astronomical event.

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