Keep your eyes open!

Sorry I've been away for a while, Did anybody hear of this, it would be cool if a supernova actually happens in our own milkyway, afterall, it's 400 years since the last one! I'm going to send an e-mail to find out exactly what parts of the sky these recently happened.

www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0930grb.html

Keith..

Hi Keith.

Unfortunately, they're extragalactic, at high redshift. Otherwise we'd have spotted the supernovae by now and we'd have detected a large burst of neutrinos if one had gone off nearby. The NASA press release was rather badly written, I have to admit.... very, very vague on where these things go off. Thankfully for us though, GRBs tend not to happen a lot though in the low-z universe!!!

Here's some images of the optical afterglow for GRB 040827.

www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/~irekk/grb/grb040924/fcharts.html

Clear skies.

Brian

Thanks for the info. Brian, pity the visual part is not nearby
Ah well, I've got hopefully about 40-50 years left to see one!!!

Keith..

Here is an image series of one of the most current SN's

mywebpages.comcast.net/sholak/CRO/ngc-6946-sn.html
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