Back on September 20th, 2016, an Argentinian amateur astronomer named Victor Buso was setting up and testing a new camera on his telescope when he captured something that may have never been caught on camera before: the first moments of a supernova.
The 58-year-old locksmith had pointed his camera at the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is found about 80 million light-years away, and shot a series of roughly 100 photos over an hour and a half with an exposure time of 20 seconds each... more