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A second supernova in as many years
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 764227" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>Unlikely at 21 million lightyears away</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, a picture of the same galaxy five years ago, courtesy of Hubble (though the star in question is just out of shot).</p><p></p><p>I hope the operator has put another nickel in the slot for this weeks viewing.</p><p></p><p>Btw, to give a sense of perspective, the M101 galaxy is estimated to have at least 500,000,000,000 stars within its galaxial capture.</p><p></p><p>There are appriximately 20,000,000 granules of sugar in a kilo bag, so we are looking at 25 thousand bags of the stuff. Additionally, the light from the one grain has spent 21 million years travelling from there to here, still almost visible to the naked eye despite getting fainter over that time via the filtering through astral dust, stray atoms of anysorts, alien intervention and of course the dark matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 764227, member: 175144"] Unlikely at 21 million lightyears away Anyhow, a picture of the same galaxy five years ago, courtesy of Hubble (though the star in question is just out of shot). I hope the operator has put another nickel in the slot for this weeks viewing. Btw, to give a sense of perspective, the M101 galaxy is estimated to have at least 500,000,000,000 stars within its galaxial capture. There are appriximately 20,000,000 granules of sugar in a kilo bag, so we are looking at 25 thousand bags of the stuff. Additionally, the light from the one grain has spent 21 million years travelling from there to here, still almost visible to the naked eye despite getting fainter over that time via the filtering through astral dust, stray atoms of anysorts, alien intervention and of course the dark matter. [/QUOTE]
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