🚨SUPERNOVA ALERT 🚨: SN2023ixf was just discovered a few hours ago in the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101! At 21 million light years away it’s the closest supernova in a decade- currently rising rapidly and should be viewable soon in amateur telescopes!https://t.co/IRT53TXFRS pic.twitter.com/UXulMeHiRX

— Yvette Cendes (@whereisyvette) May 20, 2023