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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
how exciting it must be for you guys and i like peters little description of what it is that we are really seeing, it is well worth the itruspective thought as it must be easy to get held up in the idea that it is just another dot in a fuzzy blob.
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I Absolutely agree, Mike. We should remember that the "dot in the fuzzy blob" is all that is left of the light of this
fearsome and awesome supernova after that light has traveled some
90 million light years through space.
Some people coming to this thread for the first time might wonder, in fact, why all of us are making such a great fuss about this tiny dot of light seen in a distant galaxy.....the reason is that even a modest supernova explosion puts out about a billion times as much light as our own Sun!