Garden Sheds and Industrial Buildings Supernova discovered from garden sheds

Supernova discovered from garden sheds

12:10:20 8th October 2010

An Irish man who spotted a supernova has revealed he made the discovery in his garden shed.

David Grennan from north Dublin has been a stargazer for some ten years and noticed the 290 million-year-old supernova as he was about to go to bed.

"I was going to wrap things up and go to bed, and then I thought, 'Dave you don't make discoveries in bed - at least not those sorts of discoveries'," he commented.
Professor Stephen Smartt of Queen's University Belfast confirmed this as Ireland's first ever supernova discovery.

Meanwhile, David Moore, chairman of Astronomy Ireland, described the discovery as the most important thing to have happened in Irish astronomy.

Last month, Christopher Howse of the Telegraph described garden sheds as a haven for men, providing a quiet place of escape and somewhere to work on projects in peace.
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