The brightest supernova of history

An investigation, where the CISC (Superior Counseil of Cientific Investigation) took part on it, discovered the start of what they consider "the brightest stellar event we had been able to contemplate from earth", the supernova SN1006 that exploted 7000 light year from here. The study reveals the the light that came out from the explosion is a fourth part from the moon's bright and because of that the SN1006 has been seen, in some parts of the earth, along three years!

Chinese and Arab astronomers provide the most complete historical descriptions of this supernova. The Egyptian Arabic astrologer and astronomer Ali ibn Ridwan wrote that the spectacle was 3 times larger than the size of Venus. Even in Switzerland that was in a bad position to see it saw the event all along three or four hours. It was so much powerful that the astronomer Frank Winkler said that you could have read a manuscript at midnight with the light of the .