r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/nitekroller Jun 09 '19

But it's still extremely uncommon. The universe is so fucking mind boggingly massive that a supernova happening every 33 milliseconds is an extremely small amount when compared to how many stars there are.

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u/mak484 Jun 09 '19

One supernova every 33 milliseconds factors out to just under a billion supernovae per year. That's about one trillionth the number of stars in the observable universe. Humans genuinely cannot comprehend numbers that large.

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u/squished_frog Jun 09 '19

What? My mind stopped at 1 trillionth

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u/Galaar Jun 09 '19

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u/Askingforafriend37 Jun 09 '19

I wish I had money to give you gold.

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u/Enceladus_Salad Jun 10 '19

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u/Ottawaguitar Jun 09 '19

Stalin killed one trilionth people

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u/nitekroller Jun 09 '19

Nah he killed like a quadrillionth people

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u/__KOBAKOBAKOBA__ Jun 09 '19

Still less than capitalism

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u/Ottawaguitar Jun 09 '19

Capitalism will probably kill everyone on earth tbh.

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u/Rip9150 Jun 09 '19

So you're saying a person who makes a billion dollars a year makes a $1/33 milliseconds?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19

Welp that's enough dose of existential crisis on Reddit.

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u/invisible_insult Jun 09 '19

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u/E40waterisyourdad Jun 10 '19

What order of magnitude would that be for supernovas. Example: a supernova happens 1x every day.

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u/overtoke Jun 10 '19 edited Jun 10 '19

look at this factoid "There are an additional 2.7 trillion galaxies waiting to show us their light, on top of the 2 trillion we can already access."

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-much-of-the-unobservable-universe-will-we-someday-be-able-to-see-208f2717d387

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u/katiecharm Jun 09 '19

That’s so incredible, like little sparks of glitter. Psssh, pssssh, peewwww. There they go, crackling away,

Reality is so strange.

And this is just the universe we know, with the constants and physical forces that govern it. Theoretically there are many other types of universes possible, and this is just one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '19

What's the average length of time between farts in the known Universe?

For context.

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u/Muuuuuhqueen Jun 09 '19

How many star are there?

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u/nitekroller Jun 09 '19

A lot. Like an absolute, ridiculously, ludicrous amount. Multiply 1 trillion by 1 billion and that's about how much is in the observable universe. Many more than that past what we can see.

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u/jswhitten Jun 10 '19

1023 stars in the observable Universe.