Supernova in M-95

Awesome. In an extremely close galaxy, one we’ve studied quite a bit previously, we’ve apparently just spotted a supernova and have started grabbing as much scientific data as we can manage. Of course, this is millions of light years away (estimated 38 million in fact), so unless you subscribe to the idea that everything “happens” from a geocentric fixed time frame, this supernova is already long since blown out into a nebula of some sort.

Phil Plait has more.

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Supernova in M-95
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6 thoughts on “Supernova in M-95

  1. 1

    Very cool. Of course it might have taken a rather large amount of life with it. Which is one of the many reasons why I laugh when someone starts the “fine-tuned” argument.

  2. 4

    It’s believed to be a Type II supernova: basically, a very large star that ran out of one fuel, started to collapse, and the increasing pressure lets the star reignited with a new fuel. Very cool.

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