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    What a pushover

    There goes a supernova.

    #2
    What a pushover

    Cool. Out of interest, do astronomers know which stars are likely to go supernova in the immediate future?

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      #3
      What a pushover

      Betelgeuse?

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        #4
        What a pushover

        It happened 12 million years ago, ffs. Haven't you got any news?

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          #5
          What a pushover

          Mafeking relieved?

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            #6
            What a pushover

            Stumpy Pepys wrote: Cool. Out of interest, do astronomers know which stars are likely to go supernova in the immediate future?
            Depends how one defines immeidaite future. There are stars they expect to go 'any time now', which when pressed means at some point in the next 100,000 years. That length of time counts as the blink of an eye in astronomical terms.

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              #7
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              Out of interest, do astronomers know which stars are likely to go supernova in the immediate future?
              For certain values of "immediate", which ffar exceed the history of civilisation. Eta Carinae is another favoured candidate, because it's so huge and bright. But we're talking any time within a million or more years.

              The cool thing about this one, beside it being so close (for certain values of close), is that it was caught relatively early in the process. Normally we don't spot them until they're already at or near peak brightness, so we don't have a lot of good data on the earliest stages of supernovae.

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                #8
                What a pushover

                Lots of info, images here.

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