Posted on 05/08/2008 10:43:02 AM PDT by 444Flyer
Washington-NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years.
I tured it off when I found out what it was, but 444Flyer had some nice info:
NASA “has “carded” a supernova remnant to reveal its underage status” 140 years old. See the photo, she’s a beauty.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/main/index.html
It’s an interesting picture. So recent, was it noticed in the newspapers at the time?
From a different article I read, the supernova was near the center of our galaxy and obscured, so the result was the it was a Trillion times fainter that other supernova we’ve observed (as far as optical telespoces are concerned).
There should be about 10 newer supernova somewhere in the galaxy, but I hope we wont have to wait fifty years to find one of them :-)
That makes sense. The Crab nebula was a supernova in 1054 AD and was definitely noticed at the time but not found in telescopes of course until much later. That would have been the most recent supernova seen until recently.
We sure could use The Doctor about now!
My God!! Separated at birth!
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