A Star of Space and Film

Rollie Hawk writes "Three years ago, light from V838 Monocerotis (a star about 20,000 light years from us) reached the Earth that showed the star exploding. The more politically correct term for what happened is "stellar outburst." In the time since, images from a pulse of light released during the outburst have been arriving here on Earth. In October of 2004, Hubble captured a beautiful image of the scene with the pulse lighting up interstellar gasses that encapsulated the area around this red giant (a star 600,000 times brighter than our Sun). The release of this photo just days ago seems rather timely, as it appears that some of Hubble's funding may be cut in the near future. There is also talk of eliminating the program entirely."

Comments

Debris art

[Isosonys]

I use this program and it picked up this image for me last night. It was MMm good with the porn.
http://www.badmofo.org/debris/

That looks like a...

[cOdEgUru]

Damn!!!

For a moment, I thought this was a Furry monkey with an eye closed about to swallow a bunch of stars..

I gotta warn everybody!!!

Oh wait! Hi Tommy! Hi Will.. What did ya say..

**Zap**

mmm..where was I?

Re:Question for you astronomers out there....

[wwest4]

There's something ironic about asking someone if you should be skeptical.

Re:Budgets

[stupidfoo]

Shh... only Bush does the evil stuff around here.
Congress is never involved!

Re:Budgets

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, did you know that Iraq and Afghanistan are two totally different countries? I kid you not!

Tard.

Re:Exploding stars

[koniosis]

I hope you feel big now.