badastronomy.com— Very, very cool news today: for the first time in history, astronomers have unambiguously observed the exact moment when a star explodes.
May 21, 2008View in Crawl 4
He meant that no star has never been caught in the act of supernova'ing, they've only witnessed it when it's too late to learn all the interesting stuff about the process.Did you honestly not notice extreme amounts of sarcasm present?
timthe1stMay 22, 2008
The exact moment a star explodes? You mean exactly 84million years or whatever afterward:P
billbuggerMay 22, 2008
This may help:<a class="user" href="http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Rare/rareearthactivity1.htm">http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Rare/rareearthac ...</a>
bbqsaladMay 22, 2008
aka "reality".. its a trip!
fordiMay 22, 2008
Hmm... Well played, bbqsalad. Well played.
Closed AccountMay 23, 2008
Hmmm... I just noticed that and thought I posted it last night. I think I'm just having a bad case of dumb today. Which isn't really all that unusual.
enrickeyMay 24, 2008
He meant that no star has never been caught in the act of supernova'ing, they've only witnessed it when it's too late to learn all the interesting stuff about the process.Did you honestly not notice extreme amounts of sarcasm present?