This is amazing.
Just two days ago, on January 2, this 10-year old Kathryn Gray in Canada was using a computer program that compares new and old images of the same portion of the night sky when she located a previously undiscovered supernova. She is now the youngest discoverer of a supernova, proving that age isn’t an obstacle to practicing science and rendering useful services to the community as a citizen scientist.
Read more of the article at Discovery News: Supernova Discovered by 10-Year Old
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