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Edward Aycock
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| Posted: 06 December 2025 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | 1
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Hey, if there was ever a time for the Silver Age to begin it would be RIGHT NOW.
Supernova Blast Hits Passenger Jet, Cosmic Ray Mystery Plane Drop | WION
Edited by Edward Aycock on 06 December 2025 at 11:38pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 07 December 2025 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | 2
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The idea that a supernova can generate more light than an entire galaxy is intriguing and terrifying. What happens on planets orbiting stars that are “next door” to the explosion. Is life on the hemisphere facing the blast blinded?Depends on what they use for eyes, I guess!
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Andrew Bitner
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| Posted: 07 December 2025 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | 3
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I thought I'd read some time ago that a supernova in "our neighborhood" could be an extinction-level event, given how much radiation it would emit. So it could well be that entire civilizations have been erased by the death of nearby stars.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 07 December 2025 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | 4
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At least one of Earth’s ELEs is attributed to a possible super nova, tho I would have thought there would be remnants.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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| Posted: 08 December 2025 at 11:27am | IP Logged | 5
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Betelgeuse is about to go supernova ("about to" in astronomical terms), but at 500 + ly from us, we're safe from harm. But it'll be a spectacular sight.
But if you think a supernova might be bad, try a hypernova. Thankfully, we don't know about any candidates there close to us.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 December 2025 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | 6
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In 1054, by our calendar, Chinese astronomers reported the explosion that created the Crab Nebula. They described a pinwheel of light that filled the sky from horizon to horizon for weeks. Significantly, in Europe, where the Catholic Church held absolute dominion, and taught that the sky was perfect and unchanging, there was no known mention of this event.
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Trevor Smith
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| Posted: 22 December 2025 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | 7
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In looking this up just now, JB, I learned that there is a
pictograph in the Chaco Canyon in New Mexico that those who
study such things speculate is a depiction of this event.
Very cool!
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Peter Hicks
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| Posted: 22 December 2025 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | 8
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This being the Christmas season, if you have never read it, look up Arther C Clarke’s short story “The Star”. In the far future, human explorers find an outer planet that survived a star’s supernova thousands of year ago. On the planet, they find a marker telling the story of the advanced and peaceful civilization that lived here, and knew it was doomed from their star’s sudden and inexplicable acceleration toward a supernova. And then the explorers do the math, and figure out this was the star that shone in the east to herald Jesus’ birth.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 December 2025 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | 9
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Clarke wrote THAT?Ugh.
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