Hubble breaks record in search for farthest supernova

Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 10:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago.

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