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Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-point-that-thing-at-me dept.

da4 writes "Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has a great article about Eta Car, a star approx 7,500 light years away from us that's ready to supernova sometime Real Soon Now." Larger versions of the Hubble-Chandra image of Eta Car are available at the Chandra site. Of course when astronomers say it's "about to explode," they really mean it probably exploded 6,500 to 7,500 years ago and we're awaiting the news.

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  1. i cant believe its not horsecock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

    1. Re:i cant believe its not horsecock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      SUP KURON. I don't really get why the horsecock thing is deemed meme-worthy, numerous far more unpleasant images traverse the chans daily.

    2. Re:i cant believe its not horsecock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Be thankful we can't pull off image combos on /.