Our galaxy hosts supernovae explosions a few times every century, and yet it’s been hundreds of years since the last observable one. New research explains why: It’s a combination of dust, distance and dumb luck.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-milky-supernovae-millennium.html