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Cosmic explosions in the young Universe

The discovery of two superluminous supernovae at large distances from Earth pushes the frontier of supernova studies to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, and suggests that they may be common in the young Universe. See Letter p.228

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Figure 1: Superluminous supernovae and cosmological time dilation.

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Smartt, S. Cosmic explosions in the young Universe. Nature 491, 205–206 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11643

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