Go here to see a three year span of time ebcapsulating a exploding star. Scroll doow to the bottom for the sequence:
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/big.html
To catch a falling star
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Flabby Chick
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1. You're assuming the blue stars are several light years apartDigiJo wrote:hmm, if the blue stars are in the foreground, as they look like, the nebula would have a diameter of serveral lightyears. now how could the material from a nova explosion expand over serveral lightyears within 7 month? according to einstein, that would be impossible.
2. You're assuming that the blue glare around the blue stars indicates that they are closer than the nova cloud.
3. You're not an astronomer.
Settle down Ben Steins...
I saw a Supernova a while back during a family reuinion waaay up North in Nuckland.
No phones, no CB or radiotelephone available for 90-100 miles.
Seeing a Supernova by eye, (binoculars for me) is so against the odds it's extremeley rare, and wow... exteremely cool... I will never forget that pattern.
Too bad I didn't report it, some Mexican dude, and one other in Californian reported albeit it a bit later, so the Mexican got his name assigned to it.
Some education on Supernova;
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/scien ... nants.html
Nuck out.
No phones, no CB or radiotelephone available for 90-100 miles.
Seeing a Supernova by eye, (binoculars for me) is so against the odds it's extremeley rare, and wow... exteremely cool... I will never forget that pattern.
Too bad I didn't report it, some Mexican dude, and one other in Californian reported albeit it a bit later, so the Mexican got his name assigned to it.
Some education on Supernova;
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/scien ... nants.html
Nuck out.
