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What Are The Odds Of Spotting A Milky Way Supernova From Earth?
Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:45
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Artist illustration of supernova. Credit: NASA
An exploding star in our home galaxy might be visible to Earth in the next 50 years, astronomers say in a new calculation of the odds of a nearby supernova.
This explosion would be too faint to prove a hazard to Earthlings, and in fact it may not even be visible with the naked eye in the starry sky. Its heat signature, however, would be seen in the right kind of camera as long as we could swing a telescope there fast enough.
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