]]>]]>This is what 3D observation shows. I remembered some channelings saying this is a time like no other. Also "it didn't become a black hole" is interesting. Hard times for STS ahead? We'll see.
That would be wonderful!
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We have one in our own little galaxy, Eta Carinae (Reincarnate?), and it is displaying all the signs that this big baby did just before it went SuperNova.
Scientists say that the star which blew apart is similar to Eta Carinae, an enormous star in our own Milky Way, 7,500 light-years from Earth.
They say that before SN 2006gy went supernova, it expelled a large amount of material, similar in mass to that now being ejected by Eta Carinae, prompting speculation that a similar fate awaits Eta Carinae.
Dave Pooley, at the University of California at Berkeley, said if Eta Carinae were to explode "it would be so bright that you would see it during the day, and you could even read a book by its light at night".
He added there has not been a supernova witnessed in the Earth's Milky Way galaxy for more than 400 years.
Mario Lanza, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said that Eta Carinae could explode at any time.
"We don't know for sure if Eta Carinae will explode soon, but we had better keep a close eye on it just in case," he was quoted by AFP as saying.
"Eta Carinae's explosion could be the best star-show in the history of modern civilisation," he said.
A massive exploding faraway star — the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen — has scientists wondering whether a similar celestial fireworks show may light up the sky much closer to Earth sometime soon.
The discovery, announced Monday by NASA, drew oohs and aahs for months from the handful of astronomers who peered through telescopes to see the fuzzy remnants of the spectacular explosion after it was first spotted last fall.
Using a variety of Earth and space telescopes, astronomers found a giant exploding star that they figure has shined about five times brighter than any of the hundreds of supernovae ever seen before, said discovery team leader Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley. The discovery was first made last September by a graduate student in Texas.
"This one is way above anything else," Smith told The Associated Press. "It's really astonishing."
Smith said the star, SN2006gy, "is a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before." He called the star "freakily massive" at 150 times the mass of the sun.
Observations from the Chandra X-ray telescope helped show that it didn't become a black hole like other supernovae and skipped a
stage of star death.
This is what 3D observation shows. I remembered some channelings saying this is a time like no other. Also "it didn't become a black hole" is interesting. Hard times for STS ahead? We'll see.
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