13-07-2012, 05:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Canterbury
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Watch a star Explode
Hi All,
Maybe I should have posted this under the resent BOSS discovery of SN2012dj but I wanted to draw attention to an event that happened about 73 million years ago that the telescope/camera caught last week and thought it may be of interest.
I managed to capture a before and after image of the universe in action. Attached is an image showing a type Ib/c supernova developing over the space of only a few days. This happened very fast and if you blink you can miss it!!!!
To see this happen over such a short time is what interested me in the sky and astronomy at such a young age.You don’t really need the HST to see cool stuff. To make things even better the BOSS team were the first in the world to see the photons/light that had travelled for so long to reach my telescope WOW.
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