Supernova Casts Doubt on "Standard Candle"

Krishna Dagli writes, "A supernova more than twice as bright as others of its type has been observed, suggesting it arose from a star that managed to grow more massive than theoretically thought possible. The observation suggests that Type 1a supernovae may not be 'standard candles' — all having the same intrinsic luminosity — as previously thought. This could affect their use as probes of dark energy, the mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate."

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explain this one, evo-monkeys

[Anonymous Coward]

Yet more proof that astrology is pseudoscience, and creationism is the way to go.

Its the aliens i tell yah@!

[cheekyboy]

All religeons are false and created by political people to control the masses (which are mostly dumb any way, just visit any govt dept)

So the aliens came along, being nice and all were not that much of a show off, but were amazing, but the people were
so utterly stupid they called em gods, (total lamers really) . Then the aliens got pissed off that these loosers
just had such small brains and that very few 0.0001% actually were smart to comprehend true science.

6000 years later here we are.

After all, do you personally hang around utterly stupid people? (unless they look like super models)

Re:Canada-France-Hawaii telescope?

[WED Fan]

Why do they separate out Canada from France when they are the same "run-from-trouble-and-appease-the-enemy" Vichy country?

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