SN Athena

Type
Supernova, CCSN
Status
Confirmed
Lensing
Multiply imaged
Lensing cluster
MACS J0417.5-1154 (z = 0.443)
Redshift
0.87
Discovered
2025

Core-collapse supernova found in VENUS JWST imaging in October 2025, in the quintuply imaged "question mark" galaxy (z = 0.87). It was caught as the second of three images; three lens models predict the next image a few arcseconds away between August 2026 and March 2027, and joint JWST and HST DD programs are monitoring for it. No paper yet; details from the public DD proposals.

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