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List of most distant supernovae

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ15120280 ↗
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List of most distant supernovae is a list of supernovae.

Most distant supernovae

This list contains selected examples of supernovae so far discovered.

List of most distant supernova by type

Timeline of most distant supernova recordholders

This is a successive list of supernovae that were known at one time as the most distant supernova ever.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, most and distant is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of most distant supernovae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.