Comments on: Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found

By: Soiherduliekeb

Soiherduliekeb — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:35:11 +0000

I-It’s GIGUE!!!

By: steve

steve — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:57 +0000

oh my gawd! it looks like giegue from mother 1/earthbound zero!!! if ur not a fan, look him up

By: Leirin

Leirin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:18:27 +0000

Holy cow, it’s Giegue from Earthbound Zero! Everybody sing for your lives!

By: Isaac Lands

Isaac Lands — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:02:17 +0000

Okay, since im just a 6th grader, i might not know as much as you guys do about this subject. But since its a supernova shouldnt it explode? I mean its cool and all to have one in the galaxy not exploding but its still kind of scary because if it gets really big and then explodes wouldnt some of the explosion reach our planet? Some of my friends and I are researching stuff like this on the internet but were mostly finding a load of garbage. Stuff like people going “space crickets are real and are going to come eat us all!!” its getting really stupid finding that all the time, so if someone can please enlighten me on some more info about this.

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Giegue Spotted in Milky Way Galaxy! — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:15:25 +0000

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By: Haley

Haley — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:26:58 +0000

Haley

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By: B Fenerty

B Fenerty — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:04:24 +0000

When presenting informal talks at our Science Centre, to the public who are visiting free weekly telescope observing, for dating something like a supernova I use a word such as “appeared” rather than “happened”. From there it is easy to build on the distinction between the two wordings, and reveal to or remind the audience how telescopes show things that happened often very very long ago, that many distant things we see through telescopes may no longer even be there anymore in terms of general public thinking. Using “happened” instead of “appeared” may be okay among experienced sky watchers who understand the shorthand language, take relativity issues as obvious, et cetera – but for the general public it wastes the above described opportunity to teach good astronomy. This is especially important for young members in the audience, since some may be inspired to become scientists if they see key concepts being used carefully and thus capable of exciting implications. B Fenerty (member Royal Astronomical Society of Canada)

By: Ninten

Ninten — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:59:26 +0000

Guys don’t worry. We already took care of Giegue years ago. That’s just the remnants of it’s capsule, floating around space.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:31:26 +0000

Thanks!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:15:29 +0000

OH NO! IT’S GIEGUE! I GOT IT COVERED!

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By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:17:44 +0000

AHHH! Giegue!

By: hassen

hassen — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:01:14 +0000

I am a 15 year old kid from calgary alberta asking a science question, could the sun blow up because my teacher believes that the sun is way to small to implode or explode.

By: hassen

hassen — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:55:20 +0000

Hey guys, in the first paragraph it says that something the size of the sun could create a catastrophic event. But our sun or any satrs like it are to samll to explode.

By: ghank

ghank — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:01:50 +0000

While I agree that this probably very exciting for a select few people, most people are going to wonder why all the suspense for something that happened 28,140 years ago. also if they have images from 1985, why say it’s been something that NASA has been looking for “for the past 50 years”? the 1985 pics suggest that they only had to look for 27 years. This is almost as disappointing as an Uwe Boll movie.

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:50:35 +0000

Perhaps he was betting on the aliens.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:18:18 +0000

Mohamed on 14 May 2008 at 11:08 am

NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

What the … ???! What a very weird opening comment here.

Er, Mohamed , I don’t get it. What’s so bad about this discovery then?

Or if Mohamed is a joke ID tag indicating this is somehow ahorrible discovery for Muslims well I’m still as puzzled. How does this supernova
remnant hurt the ‘Dar-al-Umma’ (Islmaic world)

Is it because the Arab astronomers missed it?
But then so did everybody else & it wasn’t their fault but the dusts..

Because it has some special Muslim significance? If so that sure escapes me …

What are you on about there …???

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:08:54 +0000

Drat! I almost had it with my guess about perhaps finding the missing pulsar for supernova 1987 A …

Supernovae ..Tick
Remmnants .. Tick
Actual discovery .. Bzzzt! Wrong ‘un.

It is, as stated, the youngest supernova remnant found in our Galaxy – forma star too dust shrouded for us tosee it go BOOM! when it went back around the US Civil War Time – or in non-US speak … 1868 was

- During the Victorian Era – the reign of Queen Victoria for the Brits!

- The year after the abolition of the Tokugawa Shogunate for the Nihonjin (Japanese) out there ..

- During the Manchu (Manchurian) or Chi’ing Dynasty -the last Imperial dynasty to rule China for the Chinese folks reading this…

… To list but three other examples.

That is an awesome finding!

Although not perhaps quite up to the pre-announcement hype …

If anything I can’t help think gee what a shame we all missed seeing it … & wondering when the next supernova in our Glaxy may happen. Hopefully soon! I’d love to see Eta Carinae & / or Betelgeux detonate in my lifetime!
Mind you, having Sirius B or Procyon B suddenly (& highly unlikely-ly!) blow up on us would not be so welcome! ;-O

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Fri, 16 May 2008 05:20:02 +0000

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By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:08:02 +0000

It does remind me of aliens still.

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:04:42 +0000

I really need to post a FAQ on this!

Well, you should, as this little convenient convention isn't well known AFAIU. IIRC many popular texts use the light travel time reference.

“conventionality of simultaneity”.

Seems to be a philosophical discussion. Our local Minkowski spacetime seems to be based on the parsimonious physical theory of Einstein. @ bret:

That is incorrect, the speed of light is not a constant, it does vary.

By convention it is the vacuum speed of light discussed if nothing else is mentioned. (And since that is the only one which is constant, it is logical to assume Phil is discussing it.)

Light also affects spacetime, it seems it does so more efficiently than gravity

Back reaction from EM energy doesn't change (vacuum) light speed.

I wont go into quantum mechanics on how faster than light information systems can be fabricated, other than to say “quantum entanglement” for anyone who wishes to use google to read further.

Quantum entanglement doesn't provide faster than light informational speeds.

By: fred edison

fred edison — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:44:34 +0000

It’s a fantastic find and about time after waiting so long. I listened to what R.C.H. had to say on the 5-14 C2CAM show about this NASA announcement and its state of affairs in general. Always a guaranteed hoot. Keep up the good…errr….bad astronomy. Hope to hear you back on the airwaves sometime.