Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant Star Exploding in Massive Supernova – For the Very First Time

https://scitechdaily.com ^ | JANUARY 7, 2022 | By NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

[Red Badger]

If there were planets in orbit around that star, they are now space dust............................

[Veggie Todd]

The creatures that lived on the planets close to that should have paid more carbon taxes. That would have stopped their sun from exploding.

[Red Badger]

Patience, Padawan, patience.....................

[Bob434]

Lol thanks, needed the laugh 😃

[DannyTN]

Relax it’s not a real person.

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[Harpotoo]

Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant Star Exploding in Massive Supernova – For the Very First Time

And that why an artists impression and CGI were needed:-)

[laplata]

There is no caption to be seen. The image portrays a human being burning alive.

Sorry, that is a poor excuse for you to post something like that.

[Red Badger]

It was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...................

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Old history. From what I’ve read elsewhere, it exploded 120 million years ago. The light is just now reaching the earth.

[Red Badger]

A mere clock tick in Universe Time...................

[laplata]

It’s amazing to see something that actually happened 120 million years ago.

[DannyTN]

Another person found the post “very funny”.

So Im 1 for 1.

[DannyTN]

Actually I’m 1 and 1. not 1 for 1.

[laplata]

You have mail.

[TexasGator]

“For us to have observed the end of the supergiant, we would have needed to be in the vicinity of the explosion. As it is, our observation would have been much later than the actual event.”

All our ‘observations’ happen later than the event.

[faucetman]

Debris to pass close to earth (millions of miles) in MILLIONS of years. Be prepared.

[Red Badger]

It will never leave its own galaxy......................

[adorno]

All our ‘observations’ happen later than the event.

True, but, for context and understanding, people should be told about the actual time of the event, and not 'our time' of observation of the event.

[Pocketdoor]

Make that 2 and 2, and 2 and 2. lol Funny Posts.

[SuperLuminal]

"“Final Moments. I. Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass Loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf” by W. V. Jacobson-Galán, L. Dessart, D. O. Jones, R. Margutti, D. L. Coppejans, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, C. D. Kilpatrick, D. J. Matthews, S. Rest, G. Terreran, P. D. Aleo, K. Auchettl, P. K. Blanchard, D. A. Coulter, K. W. Davis, T. J. L. de Boer, L. DeMarchi, M. R. Drout, N. Earl, A. Gagliano, C. Gall, J. Hjorth, M. E. Huber, A. L. Ibik, D. Milisavljevic, Y.-C. Pan, A. Rest, R. Ridden-Harper, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert, K. W. Smith, K. Taggart, S. Tinyanont, Q. Wang and Y. Zenati, 6 January 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3f3a

Only five times did I ever publish a paper with more than 3 co-authors...
Felt somewhat embarrassed each time...

IAC, it is the typical mountains of collective data from lots of sources typical in both astrophysics and particle physics that leads to author lists as long as this one...

Excellent paper...