MetaFilter posts tagged with supernova

Gamma-Ray Burst

homunculus — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:40:59 -0800

New burst vaporizes cosmic distance record. "NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen."

A Star is Unborn

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:30:57 -0800

“Here was an object brand new. At first we didn’t recognize it.” Dr. Alicia Soderberg on the discovery of Supernova 2008D, using the Swift satellite telescope....

Super-supernova

Citizen Premier — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:56:48 -0800

New supernova is bright. Too bright, in fact.

sun go boom

languagehat — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:02:58 -0800

Life (Briefly) Near a Supernova (pdf, Google cache) by Steven Dutch (UW-Green Bay). What might it be like on a planet orbiting a star that went supernova? "It would take on the order of 100,000 seconds, or about a day, to receive enough energy to vaporize the Earth." Yes, Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven are name-checked. (And yes, the Sun is too small to actually go supernova, killjoy.) Via the nonist.

Astronomers: want to watch a supernova?

elpapacito — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:30:29 -0800

Odd Supernova Amateur and professional astronomers rejoice , point your telescopes at RA: 03:21:39.71 Dec: +16:52:02.6 to watch a new phenomenon that could turn into a supernova explosion

Jubey — Sat, 25 May 2002 04:55:05 -0800

Instant Suntan. A supernova in our galactic backyard may be on the verge of exploding. In the (unlikely) event that it happens tomorrow, how would you spend your last day on earth?