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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

Wow.

"Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal"

and some people say the hubble project was worthless >.>

Nature huh! Don't it make ya feel small.

Cool.

Neato!

Sweeet

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.

Blue stars are probably both behind and infront of the nebula.

May through December doesn't seem like three years to me. But that's just me.

DigiJo 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.

1. You're assuming the blue stars are several light years apart

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.

SolidAir wrote:May through December doesn't seem like three years to me. But that's just me.

If you go to the bottom of the pic, the sequence starts back in May of 2002. Of course I could be missing something.

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.

Whoa, Wicked.
http://www.supernovae.net/supernova.html
http://www.supernovae.net/snimages/best_img.html
http://www.supernovae.net/snimages/snlinks.html#Places

DigiJo wrote:hmm, if the blue stars are in the foreground, as they look like, the nebula would have a diameter of serveral lightyears...

why do you say that?