A new star, likely th brightest supernova in recorde human history,appeared in planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD.The expanding debris cloudfrom the stellar explosion is stillvisible to modern astronomers, but what did the supernova looklike in 1006?AstronomerTun Tezeloffers this suggestion, based on a photographhe took on February 22, 1998 from a site overlookingthe Mediterranean south of Antalya, Turkey.On that date, bright Venus and a waning crescent Moo shone in the early morning sky.Adoptin recentcalculations which put the supernova's apparentbrightness between Venus and the crescent Moon,he digitally superposed an appropriate new star in the picture.He placed the star at the supernova's position in thesoutherly constellation of Lupusand used the water's reflectio of moonlight in the final image.Tezel hopes to view the total solar eclipse o 29March 2006 fromthis same site -- on the 1,000th anniversary o Supernova1006.
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