Caught in the Act—Astronomers Get Their Best Look Yet at a Supernova Blowing Up

By Shannon Hall Georgios Dimitriadis thought he had botched the data. It was late on a Friday night and the University of California, Santa Cruz, astronomer was the last one in the office. He had been waiting anxiously for NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to stream a batch of data toward Earth—not because he wanted …