Board 8 > A new supernova has been discovered

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Located 21 million light years away in another galaxy. Still fainter than the human eye can see for now, but they say it will be visible with a pair of binoculars soon.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-instant-cosmic-classic-supernova.html

Why does it matter? Something something science *waves hand*

But c'mon, supernovae are cool <3

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sweet

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Worth waiting 21 million years to see I'm sure.

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I wanted to see approx where M101 (the pinwheel galaxy) was located in relation to ours. I found this image...

Look at the virgo supercluster and you can see approx where it is. Then your mind can be blown realizing all those dots are galaxies and how things are spaced out when you look at the next scales of local superclusters and observable universe...

On a lesser note, the pinwheel galaxy is around 70% larger than the milky way.

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From: Leebo86 | #003
Worth waiting 21 million years to see I'm sure.

yesssss

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Leebo86 posted...
Worth waiting 21 million years to see I'm sure.

Beats being close enough to see it as it happens I'm sure.

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also, looking at that map of the local clusters, think of how much more interesting it would be to be in the larger clump with so very many galaxies swirling around in 'close' proximity.

our little tiny local galaxy group is the fringe areas of the virgo supercluster...which is itself at the fringe of a huge swath of clusters

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Awesome. Thanks Soviet. I missed this one in my daily round-ups.

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From: SovietOmega | #005

Naturally though we are at the center of the observable universe.

This is completely reasonable but with my luck will probably somehow doom us at a later date.

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The really amazing thing about supernovas is that they can be as bright as an entire galaxy. 1 star exploding can be as bright as 1 trillion stars. Amazing.

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Jeff Zero posted...
From: SovietOmega | #005


Naturally though we are at the center of the observable universe.

This is completely reasonable but with my luck will probably somehow doom us at a later date.

Well, we're only at the "center" because "observable" means as far as we can see, and we can see equally far in any direction. If our position "changed" we'd just see different bits.

Unless that's what you meant by it being completely reasonable in which case carry on. >_>

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That's what I meant. XD

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