Zwicky Transient Facility

ZTF18abqeits

Supernova 55% confidence

An exploding star, brightening over days and fading over weeks.

First detected: 2018-08-26 12:18 UTC; 8 years ago
Last detected: 2026-10-28 09:45 UTC; 5 days ago
Detections: 969
Position (J2000): 06:07:01.43 +20:31:00.2; 91.75596°, 20.51672°

Light curve

No light-curve points stored yet.

Sky Alerts fetches light curves for the most notable objects after each nightly update, so this one may fill in tomorrow. The ALeRCE explorer has the full history now.

Classification

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Supernova55%

Where in the sky

Whole sky, right ascension (hours) across, declination (degrees) up. The dashed curve is the plane of the Milky Way.