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20 Apr 2020, 6:34 am

Sorry. No "champagne supernova in the sky" in the offing. The light fluctuations seem to be due to just clouds of dust.



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21 Apr 2020, 4:59 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Sorry. No "champagne supernova in the sky" in the offing. The light fluctuations seem to be due to just clouds of dust.



I suspect some people will be disappointed, as it would have generated VERY high quality observational data.