10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova

minty3 writes "Nathan Gray, 10, from Nova Scotia, Canada, recently discovered a 600-million-year-old supernova in the galaxy PGC 61330, which lies in the constellation of Draco – beating his sister by 33 days as the youngest person to find a supernova. Gray made the discovery on October 30 while looking at astronomical images taken by Dave Lane, who runs the Abbey Ridge Observatory (ARO) in Nova Scotia. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada confirmed Gray's discovery, but astronomers with the International Astronomical Union say they will need to use a larger telescope to make the finding official."

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[RandomUsername99]

Read that as 10-Year-Old Supernova Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Boy

Re:Recently discovered almost 3 years ago

[jones_supa]

Published on Tue Jan 04 2011

Cool story. Not exactly recent, though.

That is because before publishing, all Slashdot news go through a rigorous fact-checking and quality assurance review, which can take months or years.

Re:No, 10-year-old boy's FATHER finds supernova

[VortexCortex]

I have trained OCR programs to recognize patterns. If they discover something from the data I give them, do I not take the credit?

Re:No, 10-year-old boy's FATHER finds supernova

[mythosaz]

All credit to Adam and Eve.

Ho-hum

[Roblimo]

"10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova" is a "Dog Bites Man" story. "600-Million-Year-Old Boy Discovers 10-Year-Old Supernova" would be serious real news. Wow!