[ExI] excellent! a nearby 1a has been found, before peak brightness!

[John Clark]

That is cool. Even cooler would be when Betelgeuse goes supernova, and that
could happen tomorrow or in a million years and it's only 643 light years
away verses 11,400,000 for this one. Of course Betelgeuse wouldn't be a
Type 1a supernova but a core collapse Type 2.  Cooler still will be when
Eta Carinea blows up, it's 7500 light years away but when it blows it will
probably be a photon pair instability style Hypernova. That would really be
something to see!

 John K Clark





On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:13 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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