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A Supernova In Red/Blue Plaid, Please

Posted by Hemos on from the build-it-for-them dept.

Snotnose writes "The New York Times is reporting that scientists have found a a supernova factory . From the article, scientists estimated that the cluster alone, which contains up to a million stars, probably produces a supernova once every two years. That is a rate 50 times higher than usual in entire galaxies. Stars explode in Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, only once in a century.. Sounds pretty awesome. "

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  1. They never stop! by Suffering+Bastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The observations were made by the Very Long Baseline Array

    Sometimes also known as "my willy".

    Seriously, though, what keeps this stuff going? Are all the existing stars around the same age? They must be constantly regenerating to cause all these big booms.

    It would be cool if I could blow myself up, then have all my molecules whirl back together to regenerate me. That would be a trip.

    There's something fascinating about explosive gaseous objects (sometimes also known as "my grandpa").

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  2. Yeah, but... by ianjk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does it run linux? ...huh?

  3. Re:Rob... by xchino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better than your average troll.. and I hate eminem :)

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  4. Re:Possible blackhole observatory by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, it really doesn't make sense for that to be moderated higher than the post to which it was responding.

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  5. Re:Arthur C. Clarke said: by Skyshadow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I knew we shouldn't have let George W Bush appoint the head of the interstellar OSHA....

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