Huge Star Explodes in Brightest Supernova Yet Seen

Huge Star Explodes in Brightest Supernova Yet Seen

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A gargantuan explosion ripped apart a star perhaps 150 times more massive than our sun in a relatively nearby galaxy in the most powerful and brightest supernova ever observed, astronomers said on Monday.

And there is one such star in our own Milky Way galaxy that appears to be on the brink of dying in just such a supernova.

The explosion occurred long ago but was detected last year after its light traveled many, many trillions of miles (km) before it could be observed from Earth.

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Stories from the Universe such as this never cease to amaze me. The problem with observing the Universe is, that we are actually looking at events, which occurred in the past; since most stars are actually so far away, that the light has to travel several thousands of years to reach earth, in order for us to see what really happened there. This supernova occurred 240 million light years away - but yet it was still the most powerful explosion ever seen and recorded by our astronomers - and it was described as "The King of All Exploding Stars". It brightened slowly for 70 days, and at its peak emitted more than 50 billion Suns worth of light-shining 10 times brighter than its host galaxy-before dimming slowly.



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It's fascinating stuff Souljah. Makes you wonder what's happening now that we'll only see or hear about in years to come, probably not even in our life time.

These two sites i find interesting:

www.astropix.com...

www.spacenow.org.uk...