Posted by Lindsey Chapman to findingDulcinea The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is expected to be at its best tonight. Look toward the "Double Star Cluster" of the constellation Perseus during the early morning hours. The meteors from the Perseids are the debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle comet, which was discovered in 1862. When Earth […]
Stars also die.
Astronomers analyzing the brightest supernova ever detected say the titanic flare has reshaped thinking about the death struggle of gigantic stars. Supernova SN2006gy, located 240 million light years away in galaxy NGC 1260, entered the record books in September last year when it dramatically brewed into an explosion 50 billion times brighter than the […]