by iamlucky13 » Thu May 10, 2007 9:10 pm
It actually happened 240 million years ago. There is, unfortunately, no way known or postulated to "reach out" and see events ahead of their occurrence. However, in our frame of reference, it effectively is occurring now, because we have no way of observing it any sooner.
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I couldn't believe the labels on that image, so I went looking for a little more info.
The big picture on the left is an infrared image of the galaxy. In this view, it's just one big blob.
The upper right, however, is a more detailed infrared shot from the Lick observatory, and this is what amazed me. The supernova is brighter in infrared than it's host galaxy!
According to the listed arc-length of NGC 1260 and its distance, the galaxy is similar in size to the Milky Way (75000 LY across).
Lastly, if you look at the third picture and click on the link to
Eta Carinae, you can guess why SN 2006GY appears as two purple blobs in X-ray.
It actually happened 240 million years ago. There is, unfortunately, no way known or postulated to "reach out" and see events ahead of their occurrence. However, in our frame of reference, it effectively is occurring now, because we have no way of observing it any sooner.
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I couldn't believe the labels on that image, so I went looking for a little more info.
The big picture on the left is an infrared image of the galaxy. In this view, it's just one big blob.
The upper right, however, is a more detailed infrared shot from the Lick observatory, and this is what amazed me. The supernova is brighter in infrared than it's host galaxy! :shock: According to the listed arc-length of NGC 1260 and its distance, the galaxy is similar in size to the Milky Way (75000 LY across).
Lastly, if you look at the third picture and click on the link to [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060326.html]Eta Carinae[/url], you can guess why SN 2006GY appears as two purple blobs in X-ray.