Comments on: Astronomy Gets Adorable: Ten-Year-Old Girl Discovers Supernova http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/05/astronomy-gets-adorable-ten-year-old-girl-discovers-supernova/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Steven Purcell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/05/astronomy-gets-adorable-ten-year-old-girl-discovers-supernova/#comment-24114 Steven Purcell Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:46:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=15434#comment-24114 Just to note: the newspaper is called the Toronto Star not the Canadian Star. Also fantastic discovery and it is great to see kids being interested in science Just to note: the newspaper is called the Toronto Star not the Canadian Star.

Also fantastic discovery and it is great to see kids being interested in science

]]> By: DP http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/05/astronomy-gets-adorable-ten-year-old-girl-discovers-supernova/#comment-24113 DP Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:05:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=15434#comment-24113 "And luckily for her, Kathryn’s work didn’t take thousands of hours–she discovered an exploded star about fifteen minutes after starting her career as an amateur astronomer." If I decided to play golf, and on the first shot at the first hole I hit a hole-in-one, I wouldn't go on to the second hole, I would put down the clubs and never play golf again. How is she going to top this? (And surely I can't be the only person who sees 'another supernova' in the upper right in the animation. What's up with that?) “And luckily for her, Kathryn’s work didn’t take thousands of hours–she discovered an exploded star about fifteen minutes after starting her career as an amateur astronomer.”

If I decided to play golf, and on the first shot at the first hole I hit a hole-in-one, I wouldn’t go on to the second hole, I would put down the clubs and never play golf again.

How is she going to top this?

(And surely I can’t be the only person who sees ‘another supernova’ in the upper right in the animation. What’s up with that?)

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