NASA's Great Observatories help astronomers build a 3-D visualization of exploded star
Monday, January 6, 2020 - 07:50
in Astronomy & Space
In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the heavens, which they recorded as six times brighter than Venus, making it the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history. This "guest star," as they described it, was so bright that people saw it in the sky during the day for almost a month. Native Americans also recorded its mysterious appearance in petroglyphs.