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The Kavli Foundation

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This is an artist's impression of the record-breakingly powerful, superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an exoplanet located about 10,000 light years away in the host galaxy of the supernova.

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Beijing Planetarium / Jin Ma

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