astro-image of the day bonus: biggest supernova ever

[mckitterick]

Holy exploding stars, Batman!

As always, click the image to see the story.

PS: I've discovered how to combine exercise with LJ - just move your exer-cycle up to the computer table. Now to solve that pesky typing issue... I do have a wireless keyboard, but one's moving thighs do not a good typing desk make.

Chris

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

WOW!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And just think: we have a star just like that one 7,500 light years away.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That's a scary thought, considering how many stars go boom. whoosh - there goes our atmosphere.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

YES!

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

The top one is just imaginary. It's not a photo. Were it a photo, I would wow, but for a painting, no.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oh come now, use your imagination! We couldn't get that level of photographic detail from a new supernova. And you call yourself an SFnal person. Feh. (Anyhow, the image also has two actual photos.)

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

My imagination is just fine, thank you. Looking at art isn't quite the same thing. The photos look like Alien Headlights. The pic of the Sombrero Galaxy done in infrared has the Headlights of the Jeep at the End of the Universe in the lower left corner.

See, real photos are som much more Imaginatively Fraught.

[themitigator.livejournal.com]

rig a rigid table-thing on the front of the exer-cycle using pvc pipes and plywood!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Ha - excellent solution. Often the simplest ones are the best.

My writing desk for many years was a cast-off office waiting-room chair with wooden arms. I attached a board across the top with a hinge so I could mount my keyboard at the perfect location. Ugly, but I wish I still had that old thing.