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'Instant Cosmic Classic' Supernova Discovered
chill sends this quote from a news release by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:
"A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth — approximately 21 million light-years away—than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion, a rare feat made possible with a specialized survey telescope and state-of-the-art computational tools. 'We caught this supernova very soon after explosion. PTF 11kly is getting brighter by the minute. It’s already 20 times brighter than it was yesterday,' said Peter Nugent, the senior scientist at Berkeley Lab who first spotted the supernova. ... the supernova is still getting brighter, and might even be visible with good binoculars in ten days’ time, appearing brighter than any other supernova of its type in the last 30 years."
It will appear at full brightness when Steve Jobs passes, and it will lead the faithful to the new Messiah who has inherited his soul.
Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion, a rare feat made possible with a specialized survey telescope and state-of-the-art computational tools
An amazingly rare feat, as not only did they catch the supernova right away, they somehow violated the universal speed limit of c in order to do so. Someone call the physics police on "chill" or Soulskill or whoever made that summary.
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I think a lot of people are disregarding this supernova. True the Type II explosions tend to produce experts in supernovae. But it should be remembered that Type I explosions still scare people. My wife and I were on the couch last night and suddenly we were both like, "Did you feel that? It felt like a burst of neutrinos coming out of the ceiling!" Which surprised me because I just had the roofers here last week laying down Spanish tile to keep fermions out.