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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Star dies in brightest supernova

Space is cool.

[Torx]

awesome!
i'll be joining an astronomy club this week, free, and i'll get to sit in on lectures and spend time with people with huge scopes on "observation night"
all the reason for motivation to buy a nice scope

dammit whiskas get your ass busy, im not payin you to sit on your ass! :P

[Miller]

wait, so technically this happened 240 million years ago?

eh just to think, one day that will happen to our sun

[Ranger]

maybe it actually happened to our sun already, but with the physics involved it wont get to us for another few years. time space and all that

think about it

(better when your high i'm sure, that could lead to some indepth dicussions :P )

[tweakmonkey]

So where are the pics and videos? You mean there wasn't a camera ready to capture this random event that took 240 million years to reach us?

[mistawiskas]

Originally Posted by Torx

awesome!
i'll be joining an astronomy club this week, free, and i'll get to sit in on lectures and spend time with people with huge scopes on "observation night"
all the reason for motivation to buy a nice scope

dammit whiskas get your ass busy, im not payin you to sit on your ass! :P

Believe me, There's no ass sittin going on here. I'm hoping work tapers off soon. I finish a big remodel this week and the bonus should equal somewhere in the neighborhood ofm 1500 bux. Debating on getting a big 10" dob or finally doing the new computer build....I'm leaning towards the new computer.

[bbsmitz]

Originally Posted by Miller

wait, so technically this happened 240 million years ago?

eh just to think, one day that will happen to our sun

Yep, long time ago.

Our sun is too small to ever go nova, it'll end up as a black dwarf.

[Goofus Maximus]

The news is that it's a special event for abnormally large stars of over 150 solar masses. Eta Carinae is relatively nearby, at 7500 light years, and shows all the signs of undergoing a similar fate, either tomorrow or 50,000 years from now. When it goes up, people in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to read by it's light at night.

This just goes to show; you should pick your partner for compatibility, or YOU TOO could go through pair instability, and be ripped totally apart!!!

[Coleman]

Originally Posted by Ranger

maybe it actually happened to our sun already, but with the physics involved it wont get to us for another few years. time space and all that

think about it

(better when your high i'm sure, that could lead to some indepth dicussions :P )

At its closest the sun is 91,402,000 miles away and 94,512,000 miles at its furthest. With light traveling at 186,282 miles per second with an average Earth-Sun distance set at 92,957,000 miles it takes about 8 minutes and 18 seconds for light to reach us from the sun. So... we'd know if the sun blew up pretty quickly.

(i pulled all this info from the internet not my brain)

[ATIzed]

We wouldn't get to see the end of our sun since it supposedly will become a red giant in 5 billion years, and at that point it would be large enough so that our planet would be engulfed by it.

[jake]

Originally Posted by Coleman

At its closest the sun is 91,402,000 miles away and 94,512,000 miles at its furthest. With light traveling at 186,282 miles per second with an average Earth-Sun distance set at 92,957,000 miles it takes about 8 minutes and 18 seconds for light to reach us from the sun. So... we'd know if the sun blew up pretty quickly.

(i pulled all this info from the internet not my brain)

ha, I hope you didnt pull that from your brain. super nerd!

[Coleman]

Originally Posted by jake

ha, I hope you didnt pull that from your brain. super nerd!

I had to make sure that my internet persona would not be slandered with claims of intelligence. Such a thing could ruin a man for life!

[MSP]

I wonder if the gamma ray burst has hit us yet? Depends on how fast gamma rays travel relative to the speed of light I guess.

[jake]

Coleman, you got the speed of gamma rays stored somewhere in that huge melon as well?

[Wedge_]

Gamma rays travel at lightspeed, they're just another form of electromagnetic radiation.

Originally Posted by ATIzed

We wouldn't get to see the end of our sun since it supposedly will become a red giant in 5 billion years, and at that point it would be large enough so that our planet would be engulfed by it.

Before that we need to worry about a possible collision with the Andromeda galaxy in only 3 billion years. That could get interesting

[Goofus Maximus]

Gamma Rays, radio waves, light, infrared, ultraviolet, and X-Rays, all travel at the speed of light, which should more properly be called the speed of photons or electromagnetic radiation, which all these are.

Red Dwarf stars basically just live on and on and on without ever really dying. Yellow dwarf stars like our sun, will grow old after a very long time, swell up and turn red, then eject most of it's mass over a period of time, as it's nuclear reaction slows to a stop.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3426624227712026764, explaining this.

Edit: WHY does google still have it's video beta still, after acquiring Youtube, anyway?

[hans5849]

Originally Posted by Coleman

At its closest the sun is 91,402,000 miles away and 94,512,000 miles at its furthest. With light traveling at 186,282 miles per second with an average Earth-Sun distance set at 92,957,000 miles it takes about 8 minutes and 18 seconds for light to reach us from the sun. So... we'd know if the sun blew up pretty quickly.

(i pulled all this info from the internet not my brain)

You see i knew it takes 8 minutes, but i would of just said we would know a lot sooner than that.

[Cr@cKpiPe tE@sEr noOb!]

Doesn't some of this stuff kind of discredit these people that don't believe in evolution? They believe the world is only 10,000 years old yet the stars we see with our own eyes take millions of years to reach our vision. Do they not believe in the speed of light and distance and plants and stars? Just curious.

[MSP]

Originally Posted by Cr@cKpiPe tE@sEr noOb!

Doesn't some of this stuff kind of discredit these people that don't believe in evolution? They believe the world is only 10,000 years old yet the stars we see with our own eyes take millions of years to reach our vision. Do they not believe in the speed of light and distance and plants and stars? Just curious.

These facts, along with fossils and geological data, were placed by god to mislead the scientists and test the faithful...

[hans5849]

Originally Posted by MSP

These facts, along with fossils and geological data, were placed by god to mislead the scientists and test the faithful...

Burn the Witches!