[NormsRevenge]

The Swift satellite is seen in an undated rendering from NASA. Teams of international scientists have used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a stellar explosion or supernova. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)

[Red Badger]

BUSH'S FAULT!.......

[kromike]

Good article, but "obviously" this is caused by global warming, so therefore, the supernova is all Bush's fault...

;)

[NormsRevenge]

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

UVOT Image of Supernova 2006dm in MCG

[Andy from Beaverton]

[lormand]

Could the signing of the Kyoto treaty prevented this?

It looks like Women and Children will be hit hardest.

[randog]

I thought I saw something last night....;^)

[Verginius Rufus]

440 million years is a long time...when the supernova exploded, the earth was in the early Silurian period of the Paleozoic. The dinosaurs arose, flourished, and disappeared while this light was making its way here.

[bruin66]

Should we believe any picture coming out of Al-Reuters?

[robomurph]

I worked on the IceCube project until recently. We were very excited when we heard about this GRB around February 25, 2006.

Our Principal Investigator had us had us review data in the 2/18/2006 time period but cautioned us to keep things under our hats until the event could be verified by other instruments.

This is very cool!

[neverdem]

FWIW, here's Scientific American's version: Gamma-Ray Burst Leads Scientists to See Supernova in Action