Uploaded March 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is breaking news (on Earth). It happened millions of years ago in space. We have an as-yet unconfirmed supernova in the galaxy M95.

This is not our final M95 video, just a news update. Thanks to Nik Szymanek who imaged the object for us at short notice and in testing conditions (what a nuisance Mars can be).

Video features Professor Mike Merrifield and Meghan Gray.

Some additional image credits:
Fred Espenak: astropixels.com
ING Messier collection: ing.iac.es/PR/science/messier.html
The first image saw came from

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