Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion - Page 2

xelasnave · #21 09-05-2007, 07:57 PM

Yes I think we could be mates

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I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. (Richard Feynman, on Quantum Theory, 1918-1988)

alex

xelasnave · #22 09-05-2007, 08:02 PM

The man is brilliant… I have found my hero

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. (Richard Feynman)

alex

robagar · #23 09-05-2007, 08:10 PM

Another convert

Yep the man's a legend

Greg Bryant · #24 09-05-2007, 08:13 PM

NASA seems to be a little slow with the news. Read the lead news item in the May/Jun issue of Australian Sky & Telescope, which came out a month ago...

iceman (Mike) · #25 09-05-2007, 08:40 PM

yeh I noticed that - the StarStuff piece interviewed Les Dalrymple from AS&T.

xelasnave · #26 09-05-2007, 08:52 PM

I can not be specific but many times I have spotted some news (science daily type of site) that announces some amazing discovery and somewhere in the article you notice the news is years old

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I get the feeling (no disrespect to the profession Matt) the writer has had a dead line and a dinner date conflict

, sorted through some of the scientific data bases and found something "newsworthy" and kept the date with his meal

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I have spent all today happily reading abstracts relating to super nova remnants and there are many interesting things but one never hears about them.
alex

gaa_ian (Ian) · #27 09-05-2007, 10:32 PM

This exploding star has certainly got some media coverage ! I have been asked about it at least a dozen times in the past few days, might make for a good excuse to go looking at Eta Carina at our public viewing this W/E.

xelasnave · #28 09-05-2007, 10:36 PM

Issue sunglasses to highten their expectations it may blow
alex

gaa_ian (Ian) · #29 09-05-2007, 10:39 PM

Onya Alex

that would get em thinking, I had better be careful, might spawn the next doomsday cult

xelasnave · #30 09-05-2007, 10:42 PM

I must confide I always compare my new shots with my old shots to see if there are any changes

, its like checking your lotto tickets however.
alex

gaa_ian (Ian) · #31 10-05-2007, 06:42 AM

With the amount of mass that the star Eta Carina losses each year (Aprox 3 solar masses) you would expect to see some change in the Homunculus nebula from year to year ! As to when it will go S-Nova, is anyones guess

xelasnave · #32 10-05-2007, 08:29 AM

I wonder if this event is the sort of thing they hope to observe the predicted gravity wave

.. if not how big an event do they need

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Just when they think they have all the answers the questions change

.. what a difficult Universe to nail down.

alex

Ingo · #33 10-05-2007, 08:52 AM

That would ruin astronomy for everybody! Poo, hope it doesn't explode till I'm done and over.

xelasnave · #34 10-05-2007, 09:17 AM

The way some things can go off we could all be "done and over"... I dont know what it was but I read about a particular star "explosion" would fry us if within 4000 light years... (magna star maybe???) anyways dont worry it would be all over before we can even see it arrive... is that not comforting.
alex

bojan · #35 10-05-2007, 09:33 AM

It may take a bit longer than that.....
have a look at this:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo...ray_burst.html
This website discusses Fermi paradox and related issues, and supernova explosions are part of this....
Perhaps we should start a new thread, this is reserved for astronomy science?

robagar · #36 10-05-2007, 09:35 AM

yeah good question... given the lack of results so far, I imagine the gravity wave detector people are praying for eta carinae to blow just so they get a blip on their detector

xelasnave · #37 10-05-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bojan

It may take a bit longer than that.....
have a look at this:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo...ray_burst.html
This website discusses Fermi paradox and related issues, and supernova explosions are part of this....
Perhaps we should start a new thread, this is reserved for astronomy science?

Thanks for the link Bojan I appreciate your help and particularly appreciate any threads you refer me to.

I hope your refer to my babbling as the non science aspect of this thread and not the prediction of gravity waves.

Another thread would be tidy.
Another section for layman's attempts to understand science would be even better I feel so uncomfortable given I am not a scientist but have the interest in it.
Somewhere between science and general chat I suppose.
Thanks again
alex

iceman (Mike) · #38 10-05-2007, 10:04 AM

This forum is for the people interested in astronomy science. You're in the right spot.

bojan · #39 10-05-2007, 10:18 AM

Alex, please do not misunderstand me, I do not think you are babbling and I do not want you or anyone else to feel uncomfortable when I am around, I am not a kind of person people should avoid (I hope, that is) :-).
Perhaps I am just too fussy and tidy about details (but my wife will disagree with this, I can tell you :-)

xelasnave · #40 10-05-2007, 10:40 AM

I liked the run down on the GRB but the site seems a little speculative in some of its content. AND the Fermi paradox is interesting but it seems to me simply airing of unsupported views. I am sorry that I can not see it differently but is it not speculation of the highest order?
Still a easy to understand run down of GRB for my humble understanding.
alex