Has a star death ever been register in the modern era?

>>8483767
Of course, many of them. Just not in our galaxy so far.

>>8483767
>modern era
define

>>8483803
this. IRRC there was a huge super nova visible from earth sometime in "recent" history

>>8483803
like, able to take a picture of it. Do we know how they look like?

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>>8483838
Literally wikipedia right on top.

>>8483854
I don't know why I was under the impression that the death of a star was never seen in recent history because they were so rare. Thought I read it on one of Hawkins books.

>>8483864
hawkinggggs

>>8483864
A supernova hasn't been observed in the Milky Way in living history, the last one was observed was 400 years ago just before the invention of the telescope. A supernova did occur in the Large Magellanic Cloud in 1987, this is a satellite galaxy of the milky way.

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>>8483767
SN 1054
The event was recorded in contemporary Chinese astronomy, and references to it are also found in a later (13th-century) Japanese document, and in a document from the Arab world. Furthermore, there are a number of proposed, but doubtful, references from European sources recorded in the 15th century