 I was always very interested in astronomy. We can look at other worlds and think about what it is like in Mars and the clouds of Jupiter and things like that. I didn't know that I wanted to become an astronomer, but I was definitely attracted to the idea of space, of stars. About once a century in a galaxy like our own, a star would explode. Within a few days it would emit a huge amount of light. It would become a billion times brighter than our sun. It's a very dramatic event. The last event in our galaxy happened centuries ago. I was about to get married on a Sunday. I had a bunch of guests coming over from abroad and went to a bar together. I was sitting at home Friday night. I was reading my email. The Japanese amateur astronomer discovered a supernova in Japan and it's something special. I emailed my students. A stream of emails started coming into my smartphone while I was still in the bar. I looked at the email and I realized that this was exactly the supernova I was waiting for to observe with the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a day and a half before the wedding. They told everybody, you know, maybe we should call it the night. It was very fun. Let's go. I went to the car with my fiancée and I told her, look, I think there's a supernova I need to work on. She was like, Hubble? And I was like, yeah, Hubble. Time is of the essence here. There is a phase that takes a few days in the life of the supernova. If you manage to get it on time, you get the information. If you miss it, you miss it. This thing just happened. We have to act rapidly. And to make Hubble observe what you wanted to observe takes time. Hubble, which is large, it's a very sensitive, very good telescope, but it's not very agile. So you cannot just say, okay, turn around and look over there. Again, we are talking about Friday night Israel time, which means Friday afternoon US, where NASA people are controlling the telescope. Their weekend is about to start. We don't have a lot of time. We contact people at NASA. Three hours later, the command goes up, start preparing to observe the target. Within 50 hours, Hubble Space Telescope is observing the supernova. That's the fastest it ever observed any type of supernova. The first time we got there in time. We definitely didn't sleep very well that night or the nights that followed because we were anxious about getting as much data as possible during the first two days. On the day of the wedding, I did everything that I could so that everything would be ready. And I got the confirmation from NASA that they were indeed going to observe the supernova. So I was aware that this is going to happen the day after my wedding. When we got to this wedding, everybody was very tired but also very pumped up because of the supernova that I managed to extract in extra few liters of energy for myself and dance the whole night. The Hubble Space Telescope has this Twitter page. I remember waking up and I see a picture of the galaxy and the position of the supernova and it says the Supernova 2023 IXF for Mr. Eris Zivama. Such interesting and nearby supernova only happened once every decade or several decades. Getting this early to the supernova of this type, I would say definitely once in a career. I was very lucky to have the supernova happening within my PhD. It's one of the brightest supernovas so it's extraordinary because we managed to get exquisite data from it and we will collect data on the supernova for probably the next 20 years. There's a saying that we are all stardust and it's true actually because every element in our body is originating in a star and when stars explode they emit this material away and eventually it ends up in us. So when we try to understand these things we are basically answering the question how come we are here? What made us happen?