Cal astronomy professor, Alex Filippenko who some IIS members communicated with two weeks ago has led a ground breaking supernovae team.
A star, perhaps 150 times bigger than our sun, that went super-nova hundreds of millions of years ago-- is just now giving scientists a look into our past. It was a gargantuan explosion-- and the most spectacular event of it's kind astronomers have ever seen.
As Rob_K pointed out, since this topic is already covered by GlenC in the Astronomy Science Forum, I'll lock this thread, please direct your comments to the following thread to avoid confusion.
