Supernova discovery statistics for 2026
These are supernova stastics for the year 2026.
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For the year 2026, 684 supernovae and 2 extragalactic novae were reported.
12 of these supernovae were named by TNS,
672 were given possible supernova designations,
and 0 were not reported to TNS.
2 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 520 were found in named galaxies
8 objects were discovered by amateurs
0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
1 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
18 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
11 Type I supernovae were found
10 Type Ia
0 Type Ia-02cx
0 Type Ia-91bg
1 Type Ia-91T
0 Type Ia-pec
1 Type Ib
0 Type Ibn
0 Type Ib-pec
0 Type Ic
0 Type Icn
0 Type Ic-pec
0 Type SLSN-I
1 Type II supernovae were found
0 Type IIn
0 Type IIP
0 Type IIb
0 Type IIL
0 Type SLSN-II
0 Type II-pec
0 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
7 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
665 were untyped
Of the 2 novae that were reported 0 were reported to TNS and 2 were not
0 were given official names by TNS
2 were found in M31
0 were found in M81
0 were found in M33
2 were untyped
196 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026wy)
149 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026zc)
108 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026xt)
91 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026vj)
83 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026tx)
19 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
14 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026qq)
9 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026xf)
7 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026qf)
3 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026av)
3 objects were discovered by Fritz (prof) (AT2026qz)
1 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026gs)
1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (AT2026ai)
1 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026no)
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