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Distant Supernova Is the Most Powerful Ever Detected (osu.edu)
schwit1 writes: Newly published research into a supernova under observation since June has found it to be the most powerful known to modern science. "This one, called ASASSN-15lh, is about 3.8 billion light years away, 200 times more powerful than most supernovas, and twice as bright as the previous record holder. It shines 20 times brighter than the combined output of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars, and in the last six months, it has spewed as much energy as the sun would in 10 lifetimes, says Krzysztof Stanek of the Ohio State University, co-principal investigator of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) network that spotted the explosion." The explosion doesn't fit well with current theories of supernova energy release, so astronomers are working to figure out its unusual mechanics.
I'm not saying that it's aliens... But it's aliens.
This could be a magnetar or this could be an event that would prompt the Pierson's Puppeteers to start a massive migration.
You can't handle the truth.
You mean they've already destroyed themselves with supernova weapons so we can't find them?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Their version of Donald Trump got elected.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
At only 3.8 billion miles away, that will hit us in about 5 years, given the speed of light. It looks like the Mayans were right afterall in their prediction of the End of the World. They were just off by five years or so because they had not foreseen the change from the Praetorian calendar to the Julienne calendar in 1066 and they had not accurately computed the speed of light using their Stonehedge calculators.
It's clearly time to sell all our stocks and buy gold to move into a fallout shelter and former nuclear missile silo deep in the Mountains of Iowa!
Finally, this just irrefutably proves the devastating impact of Global Warming once and for all. I blame El Nino, fracking and President Bush, The Lesser. And I wouldn't be surprised if Commander Taco also had a hand in it. And maybe Julian ``Chelsea'' Snowden as well. Oh, and the Gnomes of Munich.
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this!!!
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