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Distant 'Requiem' supernova will be visible again in 2037, astronomers predict


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Astronomers spot the same supernova 3x—and predict a 4th sighting in 16 years. An enormous amount of gravity from a cluster of distant galaxies causes space to curve so much that this "gravitational lensing" effect has astronomers to observe the same exploding star in three different places.