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Local Galaxy Cluster About to Go Boom

Posted by timothy on from the about-to-is-relative dept.

A. Price writes "The Slacker Astronomy podcast reports on a recently discovered super star cluster located just 10,000 light years away. This system is expected to spawn 1500 supernovae in about 40 million years. I don't plan to be around to see the fireworks, but I wish I could. The show will be awesome. SA is a weekly look at astronomy by astronomers as told by a 20-something gal from Harvard and two of her friends. It's funny and cheesy, like the Dr. Who of podcasts."

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  1. Truth in advertisement...??? by helioquake · · Score: 4, Informative

    Aaron, kinda misleading to say "Local Galaxy Cluster" when referring just a star cluster in the Galaxy, wouldn't you think?

    First I thought you found a nearby dwarf galaxy that is expected to undergo catastrophic star bursts. A bit disappoined to find out that it's just Westerlund 1...

    It's a neat object, though.

  2. Incorrect title. by Bootsy+Collins · · Score: 3, Informative


    This has nothing to do with galaxy clusters; it's a cluster of stars in our own Milky Way.

  3. Re:Now I'm curious (warning: offtopic) by FuturePastNow · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know, about thirty seconds after I wrote this I tried just changing the date of one of their other 'casts. So, April Fools: http://www.somethingpositive.net/050401-slackastro .mp3

    --
    Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
  4. Re:Now I'm curious (warning: offtopic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    and for those who just want the transcript:

    http://www.slackerastronomy.org/transcripts/050401 -theend.txt

    -aaron