Clicking a star’s death explosion from 45 million years ago
Students from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology’s astronomy club in Thiruvananthapuram captured an image of supernova SN 2026aaiv, a stellar explosion in a spiral galaxy roughly 45 million light‑years from Earth. The observation highlights the club’s involvement in astrophotography and contributes to ongoing studies of distant cosmic events. They employed a ground telescope, capturing light that traveled 45 million years.