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Massive Star Burps, Then Explodes
gollum123 writes with a link to the Berkley site about an impressive star explosion that took place some tens of millions of years ago. We first caught sight of it in 2004, when there was a bright outburst, ahead of a massive supernova. "All the observations suggest that the supernova's blast wave took only a few weeks to reach the shell of material ejected two years earlier, which did not have time to drift very far from the star. As the wave smashed into the ejecta, it heated the gas to millions of degrees, hot enough to emit copious X-rays. The Swift satellite saw the supernova continue to brighten in X-rays for 100 days, something that has never been seen before in a supernova. All supernovae previously observed in X-rays have started off bright and then quickly faded to invisibility."
I wonder what it ate? I hope it wasn't the fish...
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Did the White House force the scientists to change their qualified 'fart' into a 'burb'? Investigations are needed.
Also, is there a term for Astronomers such as the one we use called 'Anthropomorphism?'
In other news, Uranus farts, then soils it's rings. Details at 11.
Phew. Before I RTFA'd, I thought they were talking about Rosie O'Donnell....
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Massive Star Burps, Then Explodes
First seen in 2004... the same year Marlon Brando died... coincidence?
4) The star finally runs out of fuel and the core collapses
That's like a segmentation fault right?
"Is that dad? Either that or Batman's really let himself go."
...impressive star explosion that took place some tens of millions of years ago...
Oooooooold news!
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I really don't know if I'd call Rosie O'Donnell a star...
At least I can start watching The View again. (Oh, boy!)
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Oh wait...
[ ] G'Thak Meld testing out new nova bomb. Gas / dust shell was actually a cloud of mothballed habitats and light collectors towed to the system to see how blast would effect a dyson shphere.
[ ] Elder Race equivalent of Jackson Pollock at work.
[ ] Young Earth creationists are right; like anything more distant that 6,000 LY, this was actually elaborate illusion created by God.
[ ] Extremem upper limit of Mentos / Diet Pepsi reaction now known.
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Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Before you try to critisize a religion or hell even a topic you should at least have some understanding of it.
And hurtling towards us from the decaying supernova remnants is a probe with a single mysterious inscription on the side:
"You must be new here."
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I did a little calculating. At 10 million miles per hour, that means the pieces of the star are traveling at about 15 times the speed of light. I would think that would have been something to bring up in the article. I've been led to believe that nothing can go faster than light speed.
for the hyperspace bypass have been on public display for some time now. They should have taken a greater interest in galactic affairs.
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