Ten-year-old Kathryn Gray sits next to a computer at the family’s home in Birdton, New Brunswick, Canada, a suburb of Fredericton, on Monday. On the computer monitor is an image in which she discovered a supernova. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada says she made the discovery on the weekend under the watch of two other astronomers.
Kathryn is the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion. In your daily whimsy.