In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the discovery of a supernova in a galaxy not too far away.
Looking Skyward: A supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy
![The supernova, known as SN 2023ixf, was discovered by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/73e456b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/960x960+0+0/resize/880x880!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc1%2F80%2Fadf6e7ac47ff87c57ab01fc0b843%2Fm101sn-stocks-after-960.jpg)
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