image: 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. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 15, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Dong at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, 'ASASSN-15lh: A highly super-luminous supernova.' view more
Credit: Wayne Rosing