Timelapse From Hubble Shows a Star Literally Exploding

a reply to: midnightstar

What warp factor is necessary to get to where the Super Nova exploded within an average lifetime?

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: gortex

but because of light speed being so slow we and not the Dinosaurs get to see it today

Light speed is slow? Well I guess thats relative now isn't it?

It is pretty slow relative to even the short distances around our immediate space neighborhood:

I wonder how much of a bang it made when it went supernova 70 million years ago?

Er...none. There is no sound in space. Doh!

a reply to: gortex

That could have been our home.

We left, came to Earth got wiped out by a catastrophe, except for Adam-Eve, and had to start over.

That's why we're advancing so fast now!

Leaving the other animals in the dust.

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: gortex

That could have been our home.

We left, came to Earth got wiped out by a catastrophe, except for Adam-Eve, and had to start over.

There are a couple thousand large galaxies (I'm talking thousands of entire galaxies like the Milky Way) within 70 million LY of that star and tens of thousands of smaller dwarf galaxies. You'd figure there would have been a closer place for them to go than here.

originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: gortex

but because of light speed being so slow we and not the Dinosaurs get to see it today

Light speed is slow? Well I guess thats relative now isn't it?

It is pretty slow relative to even the short distances around our immediate space neighborhood:

It was a play on words, as in Einstein' theory of relativity

Anyway being that light doesn't experience time, distance really isn't a factor.

a reply to: gortex

That was either Alderaan or the death star being destroyed.

originally posted by: carewemust
So Hubble did nothing else for a year but watch what was left of that star cool-down? Or does Hubble have more than one telescope, so it can multi-task?

They probably tasked the telescope once or twice a week to take a picture of the star, chain all those pictures together and you have a time-lapse of the star going supernova. It could have looked at dozens of other targets in between taking pics every few days.

a reply to: openminded2011

I finally checked out NGC 2525 last night, took some BW pics of it. That star exploded into oblivion, nowhere to be seen.

a reply to: CraftyArrow

Cool pic , Bravo.