that is INSANE
Can you even get your mind around this? Supernova are those insanely bright and powerful phenomena that take place in the universe. Most scientists think they are neutron stars that burn out and collapse in on themselves and then get so dense they explode outwards. This one they just spotted is so powerful you may not even be able to get your brain around it:
A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago in a galaxy near Earth had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun, according to astrophysicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
The sudden blast hurled material outward from the star at a speed of 10,000 kilometers a second. That’s equivalent to 36 million kilometers an hour or 22.4 million miles an hour, said SMU physicist Govinda Dhungana, lead author on the new analysis.
Is that awesome or what can you believe it?
Let’s find out more about this super super nova on the next page
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Dan Finn
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