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Supernova Imaged by Hubble Telescope
Delta Vel writes "First discovered by a Japanese amateur astronomer on July 31, this Type II supernova was imaged by Hubble on August 17th. The newly named SN 2004 dj, the closest supernova to be observed in over ten years, is about 11 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 2403. Looks like they goofed in one of the images, though--the arrow points to a different bright spot on the before-and-after image than it does on the main and annotated images." Reader Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Today, astronauts Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke popped open the hatch on the Russian side of the ISS spacecraft and quickly stepped through the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month mission. Their mission? Install three antennas and replace a 2-foot-square Russian pump panel. But of course, because it isn't a part or our Mission to Mars, it is still too dangerous work on the Hubble Telescope, which after all, is only used for science."
It's about time they got a bittorrent server in space.
The RIAA is now building a rocket which can be sent into space to deliver a cease and desist order to supernova to stop piracy once and for all.
They'll put any old thing up, this happened 11 million years ago for God's sakes.
why run from Vincenzo?
The Suprnova stronly resembled a large collection of pirated games, moveies, and Television shows. Later confirmation sightings revealed it to be not in fact Suprnova, but only a mirror.
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My ISP thanks you for that.
Shh! don't ruin a good conspiracy.
"full_jpg.jpg" Who comes up with this shit?
Propz to the Nasa guys for marking some of the images with the earths relative polar position. This should come in handy if I ever get lost in space!
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Well, I guess it's only another 5 billion years til we get to see one REALLY up close.
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You know there's something seriously wrong when you type in Supernova in Google and it asks you "Did you mean : Suprnova " ?
Well, first of all, I meant "efficient" actually as in "effective". That pulse of gamma radiation did a thorough job of causing the biggest mass extinction in history.
But even if we talk efficiency as in physics: compare it to rising the ocean level that much. Even completely melting the polar caps won't do. We're talking either:
A. bringing a helluva lot of water from somewhere else. Which ought to cost a helluva lot of energy. Or
B. just creating more water. Which means even more energy. Think: E=m*c^2.
By comparison, detonating a star could require little more than giving it a nudge. It already has the fuel right there.
And perhaps more importantly: the flood just begs a lot of uncomfortable questions. The supernova just looks like an accident. Nothing suspicious about it.
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