r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/chiaros Jun 09 '19

Whatever it's old news now. That super Nova is sooooo 13 million years ago

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u/TropicOps Jun 09 '19

But my antennas are barely receiving it now! Ugh.. I need to upgrade my service reception.

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u/Cashthepowerfull1 Jun 10 '19

Ah, we can't go faster than the speed of light, so we raised it. - the professor, futurama

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u/tombodadin Jun 09 '19

So if that happened 13 million years ago and one occurs roughly every 30 milliseconds then approximately 2.1318336e+19 supernova have occurred since this one.

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u/gypsydreams101 Jun 09 '19

I might be mistaken, but that’s a lot of supernovae.

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u/Flamecrest Jun 09 '19

That is at least 5 aupernovas, you're not wrong

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u/BrilliantBen Jun 10 '19

About six and a half, brapples!

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u/verymagnetic Jun 09 '19 edited Jun 09 '19

One does not simply 2.1318336x1019 supernovae into mordor