Space and stuff

[PITA]

Sadly dont think we’ll see it in our lifetime. Another article here from Phil Plait who is a good follow on Twitter

Don’t panic! Betelgeuse is (almost certainly) not about to explode

The star Betelgeuse has dimmed a lot in recent weeks, but that doesn't mean it's about to explode.

www.syfy.com

Would be amazing to see though.

Agreed. They're talking about another 100,000 years of life but would be cool.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Agreed. They're talking about another 100,000 years of life but would be cool.

Do they know what day of the week? Only I'm busy on Tuesday.....................................

 

[summerisle]

 

[LostLegend]

 

[Paris]

I'm feeling queasy watching that @LostLegend lol

 

[Bluesaint]

Earth, Venus and Jupiter taken from the surface of Mars.

 

[trueblue84]

Hate these stories with a passion. Why not just take the opportunity to educate people about science without making it sound like sensationalist nonsense about aliens?

 

[arch stanton]

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Earth, Venus and Jupiter taken from the surface of Mars.

looks like the glide slope on the way into Ringway

 

[summerisle]

 

[-Rob-]

Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang'

The blast in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster left a cavity 15 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.

www.bbc.co.uk

"I've tried to put this explosion into human terms and it's really, really difficult," co-author Melanie Johnston-Hollitt told BBC News.
"The best I can do is tell you that if this explosion continued to occur over the 240 million years of the outburst - which it probably didn't, but anyway - it'd be like setting off 20 billion, billion megaton TNT explosions every thousandth of a second for the entire 240 million years. So that's comprehensibly big. Huge."

I'm not sure I understand the reference to the 240 million years but whatever it means, that's a big bang.

 

[Nymzee]

Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang'

The blast in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster left a cavity 15 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.

www.bbc.co.uk

"I've tried to put this explosion into human terms and it's really, really difficult," co-author Melanie Johnston-Hollitt told BBC News.
"The best I can do is tell you that if this explosion continued to occur over the 240 million years of the outburst - which it probably didn't, but anyway - it'd be like setting off 20 billion, billion megaton TNT explosions every thousandth of a second for the entire 240 million years. So that's comprehensibly big. Huge."

I'm not sure I understand the reference to the 240 million years but whatever it means, that's a big bang.

Yeh she didn't really do her best at telling us haha.

 

[-Rob-]

Yeh she didn't really do her best at telling us haha.

If I could really understand space stuff - which I probably don't - then I'd really understand space stuff.

 

[Paris]

 

[Dylan]

Hate these stories with a passion. Why not just take the opportunity to educate people about science without making it sound like sensationalist nonsense about aliens?

BECAUSE IT IS ALIENS!!!!!

 

[trueblue84]

BECAUSE IT IS ALIENS!!!!!