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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. Now I'm curious (warning: offtopic) by FuturePastNow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After reading their website, now I want to hear their April Fools podcast (" We will not play the show again. It was up for one day and one day only."). Did anybody who knew about this site before five minutes ago save it? Post a link?

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    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.
    1. 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

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      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. Clever, Saddam by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clever, Saddam. Hiding those WMD's in distant star cluster. But you never thought the hiding place would be betrayed when Waphoon Zugbart carelessly detonated it when he dropped a cigaratte butt from one of his 5 hands. Never trust those Altarians to guard anything again.

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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  5. This is awesome by __aaudsj459 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This show has me on the edge of my seat every week waiting for a new broadcast to come online. Thanks guys. You are awesome.