Historical Supernova: You find an ancient Chinese text that speaks of a "new star" briefly visible in the constellation Sagittarius in the year 1000 B.C. You suspect that the reference is to a supernova explosion. Design an observing program to provide scientific evidence for this hypothesis. What object or objects would you look for in the sky today? What wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation would you use? How would you be sure any object you found exploded (as seen from the Earth)nearly 3000 years ago?

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The Answer of Historical Supernova: You find an ancient Chinese text that speaks of a "new star" briefly visible in the constellation Sagittarius in the year 1000 B.C. You suspect that the reference is to a supernova explosion. Design an observing program to provide scientific evidence for this hypothesis. What object or objects would you look for in the sky today? What wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation would you use? How would you be sure any object you found exploded (as seen from the Earth)nearly 3000 years ago?

Historical Supernova: You Find an Ancient Chinese Text That Speaks