Posted on 03/24/2021 6:45:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
According to reports in The Astronomer's Telegram, a star in the region of the constellation of Cassiopeia has just gone nova, and the glow is still visible in the night sky. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and have even a basic telescope, you might want to head out and point it in that direction.
The first detection was made on 18 March 2021 by amateur astronomer Yuji Nakamura from the Mie Prefecture in Japan. In four frames captured using a 135-millimeter lens and a 15-second exposure, a bright, magnitude 9.6 glow was visible where none had been just four days earlier.
The find was quickly reported to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and scientists zeroed in to find out what was going on.
Using Kyoto University's Seimei Telescope, astronomers at the NAOJ and Kyoto University conducted spectroscopic observations, and used the 0.4-meter telescope at Kyoto University for multi-color photometric observations.
They confirmed that the event is indeed what we classify as a classical nova, the most common of the stellar explosions, and gave it the name V1405 Cas.
A classical nova is not the huge kaboom of a massive star, but an explosion on the surface of a white dwarf with a main-sequence binary companion on a close orbit - generally less than 12 hours. As the two stars whirl around each other, the tiny dense white dwarf siphons hydrogen from its larger, fluffier companion.
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End of Times confirmed...
Beam me up into the clouds
ping
Thanks for the info.
We’re all gonna die.
Just exploded my a$$.
How many years ago did this explode ? Maybe 10 years ago.
Women, children and minorities hit hardest.
5,500 years ago.
Back when satan tricked Eve.
Rats. We’ve got cloud cover and fog.
It exploded more like 5,500 years ago.
I thought that I’m going to hear something!
Yup, 5.000 years ago, but we are just seeing it now. For all we know, it might not even exist anymore. That’s kind of mind blowing.
"The eclipsing variable (binary) star CzeV3217, which lies at an approximate distance of 5,500 light-years from the Solar System."
So we can surmise that the actual event we are seeing now happened at least 5500 years ago.
The more I read about those 5 stars reveals that the constellations we see are only those patterns when viewed from here, aka our solar system. All five of the stars are at radically different distances and have no relationship to each other, other than ‘appearing together’ from solely our vantage point. How often do we even think about it that way. So the big dipper is not really close stars in real space.
There are no close stars in real space.
The Iceman had not been born yet when this nova exploded.
Cassiopeia has had bigger fireworks...a supernova or two.
You will hear it in about 6 x 10^11 years.
The only way to counter this and save ourselves is with a one world government.
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