Rare and Close: Witness the Largest Supernova in a Decade with a Free Telescope Livestream.
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The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream the newly discovered supernova, SN 2023ixf, as it develops via its robotic telescopes based in Rome, Italy. The supernova is located in the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, and is one of the largest and brightest seen for a decade. The online event will kick off at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Thursday, May 25. The supernova can be difficult to view in the night sky without the right conditions or telescope, but amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes can see it as a small speck of light.
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