Runaway anti-matter production makes for a spectacular stellar explosion

The supernova can be seen in the image on the right (labeled “2007”) as the small “dot” in the center of the image. Note that this “dot” is not seen in the image labeled “2002 to 2006”.

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NOIRLab

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