Hubble breaks record for FURTHEST SUPERNOVA ever detected.

Hubble has broken its previous record for the furthest supernova explosion ever detected. It’s like, really, really, really far away. Would probably take Superman like three or four days to get there. (And he’s faster than the Flash.)

Space:

Astronomers have spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind, a supernova that could helpscientists better understand the nature of the universe.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists recently caught sight of Supernova UDS10Wil (nicknamed SN Wilson) which exploded more than 10 billion years ago. It took more than 10 billion years for the light of this violent star explosion to reach Earth.

SN Wilson is known as a Type Ia supernova — a particular kind of star explosion that gives scientists a sense of how the universe has expanded over time.
“This new distance record holder opens a window into the early universe, offering important new insights into how these stars explode,” research leader David Jones of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., said in a statement. “We can test theories about how reliable these detonations are for understanding the evolution of the universe and its expansion.