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Pretty neat. Still waiting for Betelgeuse to go nova.
1 posted on 02/22/2018 6:05:33 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Galileo was self taught too. :)


2 posted on 02/22/2018 6:07:48 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Still waiting for Betelgeuse to go nova.

Just say it 3 times!

3 posted on 02/22/2018 6:08:40 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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He didn’t witness it. He saw a picture of it.


4 posted on 02/22/2018 6:09:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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Maybe it already has.

What will be interesting is what that nova will do to Orion. If one of his “shoulders” becomes a huge nebula, it’s going to throw off the pattern of the constellation.


5 posted on 02/22/2018 6:10:52 AM PST by Little Pig
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AWESome!...............................


8 posted on 02/22/2018 6:27:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: C19fan; SunkenCiv

SUPERNOVA PING!................


9 posted on 02/22/2018 6:28:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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For later.

L


20 posted on 02/22/2018 10:26:21 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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...all the energy he had poured into constructing an observatory atop his home...

...is nothing compared to the energy the star poured out.

21 posted on 02/22/2018 10:31:37 AM PST by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: C19fan

A Champagne Supernova?


22 posted on 02/22/2018 10:32:34 AM PST by dfwgator
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What he saw and captured may have happened half a billion years ago, with the light just now arriving.


26 posted on 02/22/2018 12:41:22 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Some guys get all the luck!


30 posted on 02/22/2018 3:07:17 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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