@AscendingParadigm: Some stars are being watched and we catch these events by accidental proximity to interesting regions of space. Some are caught totally at random for this reason. Some stars, however, exhibit signs that they will have an "event" in the near future. They start changing their emissions and/or spectra or change size. Astronomers can tell which stars will go supernova some time in the future by their position on the "main sequence" and some stars by their present activity.
@AscendingParadigm What RyuDarragh said, but to further answer your question with regards to this particular event, the supernova is in the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is a very popular object for amateur and professional astronomers to observe, and because of the massive nature of the explosion, the event itself can lasts for weeks or even months. I had the good fortune to be making a trip to a nearby observatory when the event occurred, so I got to see the supernova on its 2nd day of visibility.
Well, whaddaya know. I finally found a Russian paper (from 1979) that attributes the brightening effect to the expansion of the outer shell.
It also claims that the kinetic energy released as the ejecta interacts with extrasolar nuclei causes some heating, but not enough to account for the full brightening effect.
And I was wrong - the accepted maximum velocity for type Ia SN ejection is less than 20km/S. You learn something new every day!
Can anyone confirm the brightening effect's cause?
I know it's partially due to the expanding debris sphere (at v >> 22km/S), but that should be cooling by now...
So I figure it's a combination of interaction with the extrasolar medium, plus reradiation of neutrino/gamma ray emission by the core star. But I can't confirm this.
Anyone?
However, I DO know what it WASN'T caused by. It WASN'T an IBSF (invisible bearded sky faery)... Just runaway carbon fusion. Mmmm, carbon....
@CephasBorg you really think anyones actually gonna reply to you? Youtube commments section is the exact opposite of an intellectual forum. i wonder if you are just showing off that you know various terms.
@Aristox116 : If I really wanted to show off, you wouldn't understand a word in ten. (Hell, even I wouldn't understand a word in five! :) So that's not why I'm asking.
I've asked on TF's blog, on various astronomy forums that I lurk on, and I can't get a straight answer from someone who actually knows.
You're right though, the comments section here does remind one of feeding time at the Arkane Asylum, except of course it's information scraps dropping to the floor, not food.
Well, whaddaya know. I finally found a Russian paper (from 1979) that attributes the brightening effect to the expansion of the outer shell.
It also claims that the kinetic energy released as the ejecta interacts with extrasolar nuclei causes some heating, but not enough to account for the full brightening effect.
And I was wrong - the accepted maximum velocity for type Ia SN ejection is less than 20km/S. You learn something new every day!
It would be awsome if we could in the future make some kind of super camera that could zoom in to the EXTREME. So that we could get a clear vision of it.
Oddly enough, no. I assumed if we're going through that much trouble to see something, we wouldn't mess with the image.
It seems I was ignoring history, as we've messed with pretty much all the other interesting images from space. Mostly in order to actually make them interesting.
I mean I can see lots of things, but when we see close ups from black holes or supernovas and national geographic channel or discovery its mainly animations.
@gulbirk Well, that's true. The resolution of Hubble's primary optics is only a few milli-arcseconds. That's not even enough to see details on the moon smaller than about 1,000 feet. The only reason we can see those distant things at all is that they're so big. The bigger the mirror the better the resolution and the mothballed James Webb telescope was over 100X bigger than Hubble in area.
Do you know if astromomers will be aiming more serious telescopes to publish much greater detailed pictures? Not that I'm knocking your work, Thunderfoot, great work. But I would love a closer gander at this thing.
The supernova is being sustained by radioactive decay. You can use this decay to prove radiometric dating reliable to the earliest periods of the universe.
Oh jeez this reminds me of those days when I was animating in flash, I wanted to keep seeing the finished product and kept realizing it had to actually get finished first >< lol
Unfortunately no, but a small telescope or even a decent sized pair of binoculars (7x50s or 10x50s) have a pretty good chance of pulling it in, especially if you're in a darker area.
well, some of my other friends think I'm silly, but I think it was worth staying up so late, watching you freeze your fingers off and fiddle with hardware for two nights, trying not to get eaten by mountain lions, to see "that little dot? That's it?" Geekery uber alles.
M101, often dubbed the "Pinwheel" galaxy. If you make an equilateral triangle between the last two stars of the big dipper's handle, with the 3rd point going east towards Draco/Cygnus, the galaxy (though invisible to the naked eye) will essentially be right where the third point of the triangle is.
can someone explain this to me? i don't understand how you can have before and after pictures of a star exploding, then film it exploding. help a brother out.
I can understand why some people are complaining about it "just being a dot" but they aren't looking at it from the right perspective. All the white dust looking stuff is stars within the galaxy. So small that together they look like dust. Now freeze at day 8. That "dot" came out of that dust looking stuff. Imagine how many stars would fit in that light!
I knew a Super Nova outshine its entire galaxy; I read it, and I heard it more than a thousand times, from Sagan, and so many other shows about the universe in television.
But no one had ever shown how incredible the effect really is.
I am stunt that no one had ever show this effect so that ordinary people can actually had an idea of how magnificent really it.
imagine 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 Nukes detonating all at once, just imagining 1 nuke detonating is hard enough. Supernovae are fucking cool !!
@GHortaV Check AndromedasWake's channel - he did a good little series for beginners in astronomy. I'm a keen amateur astronomer, and he says what I would say And - good telescopes don't come cheap. I think TF paid over $2,000 for his.
You can get in MUCH cheaper than that. A good place to start are Dobsonians, which are big reflectors on a cheap but sturdy, mortar style mount. You can find 6"-8" dobs (a LOT of telescope) in the $200-400 range easily.
@DenGreatshot Certainly there are cheaper options than an 11" Cassegrain on a Goto EQ7, but people splash out on Cassegrains for a reason. But my real point is that to get into astronomy, getting some good books and joining an astro club (other people will be happy to let beginners have a look at and through their kit) is a better first step than buying a telescope. It's better to have a little experience and to find out what you want to do and how to do it before spending proper money.
It's well worth it. I got to see this sucker with my own (scope aided) eyes. Between this and another SN of the same type I saw over the winter, I consider it to have paid for itself, and that doesn't even count the hundreds of hours I've spent looking at other cool stuff... Planets, star clusters, other galaxies, etc. However, seeing galaxies themselves is a real challenge, especially if your skies are typical suburban or urban ones, like mine.
@DenGreatshot Actually, the last of what you said is exactly the reason for which I'm holding back from buying a telescope. I live in a city with a decent amount of pollution and I feel I would need to go out to the country side to fully enjoy the telescope experience. I don't own any property outside the city and I feel the telescope would be sitting in my closet 364 days of the year.
@dborg321: Uhm... close. It's actually a feeble attempt at humor, or satire, and has used the trappings of typical conspiracy therory language as comedy elemnts. It's not serious (this is probably an attempt at "witty trolling" and not an attack... think along the lines of getting "rick rolled" by "push" rather than "pull").
@johanneswiberg Betelgeuse would not harm us. However we would have a second sun in the sky for several weeks. However, if a very special type of super nova happened called a gamma ray burst, the star could be much further from us than Betelgeuse and still cook us instantly.
I pulled it in super easily last week in my 8" reflector, a $330 mass produced scope. The math says by now it's bright enough to see in a much smaller scope or even decent pair of binoculars, but I haven't had a clear night to get out there to see if I can do so yet.
Now if we would be able to make awesome telescopes and travel 100 times as fast as light, we could travel about 49 lightyears away from earth, look back and see the kennedy assassination live :D.....awesome.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Very cool, Thank you for taking the time to do this. I have a question for you... Obviously the initial light from this massive explosion is going to spread out in all directions. What im curious about is when we will be able to observe this light with our eye and is it possible that we will one day be bathed in this initial light? Also is it possible this could have any effect on Earths environment (biosphere, gamma rays killing the ozone), or is this Supernova too far away for that to happen?
Guys bashing theists is fun and all but dont you get tired of it ? I think all of us would like to put religion behind us one day as something uncool that used to be common prior to 2020(or whatever) and as something that is not a worthy topic for further discussion. You know, expanding our conversational horizons to something like science and space ships, faster than light travel, artificial intelligence , robots, etc.
@PowerOfTheMirror If nobody debates them, they win the argument by default. They'll have free reign to spout all the bullshit they want, and without anyone to correct them, casual observers would be unaware of any other viewpoints.
It would be nice if we could turn our attention to other matters, but it's not a practical option until religion is put in it's place.
@ThePsychoReturns Ok I agree with that, we have to point out their mistakes now and forever to defend the casual observer from BS. Yet I think it wont be good to devote all our attention to that task, it would be somewhat obsessive. I think we can afford to gradually phase into other topics as we gain ground. This will may also help marginalize religion as a something thats not only based on false premises but also boring. Thats why im all for these science video's.
i thought it was pretty shitty too. this is something new scientist would upload, and no one spares honest criticism there. maybe Im just too spoiled from the usual quality...
@AtheistKharm Hi-- since it was a SN Type Ia it would be 1.4 times the mass of the sun, commonly referred to as the Chandrasekhar limit. We use this type of SNe as a standard candle-- same mass ==> same luminosity, so we can judge distance by how bright it appears to us-- dimmer means farther away. As to your 2nd question, it would have to be more than 10X closer for it to affect Earth, somewhere inside our own galaxy (this one is 21 Mly away, and ago-- long ago, in a galaxy far, far away).
@julsHz Very interesting. I'm just thinking any near by alien life on some exo-planets on some system near by might be having a bad day. Really bad day.
f00t you need to relax about this a bit it's really not that great. i mean i know people like explosions but not ones that only look like someone brightening up a few pixels. Computer animations are better.
@SomeIrishGuy19 Clearly you don't know the difference between just some "explosions" and a SUPERNOVA. If all you see is a light getting slightly bigger, then this video was not intended for you. Go critique something that actually needs critiquing. And and although they can help you further understand what it really looks like, computer generated images will never beat what you can witness with your own eyes.
@westwood500 No one can think that this supernova looks exiting or cool it looks shitty it's a tiny dot you are only deluding yourself. he needs to stop doing this amature stargazing madness and get back to doing athiest vids i didn't sign up to see a vids of this madness.
@Koujinkamu I thought the comment section was for writing anything in. whether it be honest, dishonest, accurate, inacurate, relevant, irrelevant, etc. open yr mind a bit - just cause a comment disagrees with you, it doesnt mean "trolling" and its not the end of the world either. No one agrees on everything. If you REALLY REALLY like someone and their channel and vids, like i do here, its still acceptable to be honest and say u didnt like something in particular.
@Koujinkamu a critical, objective, questioning, challenging viewpoint and mind set are what skepticism is all about. Not just blind, follow-the-masses, almost religious type thinking, or not thinking. You must want to talk, otherwise you wouldnt have replied to my comment :)
@SomeIrishGuy19 You do understand that it is HIS channel to do what he wishes correct? Are you one to limit freedom to "Well I want you to do this, otherwise you're being stupid."
And the fact that you don't think a Supernova is exciting just goes to show how uneducated you are. Go read the other comments and say that again you dumbass.
I have no more time for your mindlessness, so good day.
@westwood500 I know it's his channel but i subscribe to it because i like listening to him talk about athiest stuff and he's alienating people by having boring astronomy on here .thinking that a tiny twinkle of light is boring dosen't make me uneduacated you fucking tard. I've just finished my masters so i have plenty education.
@SomeIrishGuy19 What you don't seem to comprehend, is why this is so interesting. It's not the white pixel we find amazing, it's what it represent. We fill in the rest of the pixels, by sheer knowledge of the subject. Let's say we discovered a dust worm of 1 km in length was living under the surface of Mars. If I then provided you with a video of a dark pixel moving across the surface, as seen from space, you wouldn't go; "Who finds this dark pixel interesting?!" You would know WHY it was COOL!
How could anyone know exactly when a super nova effect was going to reach earth?
MrYadakun 1 month ago
I don't think that nova"s happy that u looked in his diary XDA
Coolfunfunfun 1 month ago
Pretty
Mezworld 3 months ago
its funny cause it could have happened over 50 years ago, but the lights just now getting to us :D
prowelfare 4 months ago
@prowelfare
I think ur wrong...
If I'm correct this is the star called "PTF-11kly" wich is 21 million lightyears away from earth.
Meaning this didn't happend 50 years ago but 21 million years ago :D
SuperPeterl 4 months ago
I was sort of expecting the "first week" to be followed by the "second week". What happened?
rg0057 5 months ago
That's God popping a zit.
gaminggroove 5 months ago
How did we know ahead of time, the exact location and time the supernova event could be observed?
AscendingParadigm 5 months ago
@AscendingParadigm cuz it already happened.
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@AscendingParadigm: Some stars are being watched and we catch these events by accidental proximity to interesting regions of space. Some are caught totally at random for this reason. Some stars, however, exhibit signs that they will have an "event" in the near future. They start changing their emissions and/or spectra or change size. Astronomers can tell which stars will go supernova some time in the future by their position on the "main sequence" and some stars by their present activity.
RyuDarragh 5 months ago
@RyuDarragh Thanks
AscendingParadigm 5 months ago
@AscendingParadigm What RyuDarragh said, but to further answer your question with regards to this particular event, the supernova is in the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is a very popular object for amateur and professional astronomers to observe, and because of the massive nature of the explosion, the event itself can lasts for weeks or even months. I had the good fortune to be making a trip to a nearby observatory when the event occurred, so I got to see the supernova on its 2nd day of visibility.
Heavensrun 5 months ago
@Heavensrun Thanks
AscendingParadigm 5 months ago
Well, whaddaya know. I finally found a Russian paper (from 1979) that attributes the brightening effect to the expansion of the outer shell.
It also claims that the kinetic energy released as the ejecta interacts with extrasolar nuclei causes some heating, but not enough to account for the full brightening effect.
And I was wrong - the accepted maximum velocity for type Ia SN ejection is less than 20km/S. You learn something new every day!
CephasBorg 5 months ago
I can't thank you enough for this, Tf00t.
warbread 5 months ago
Can anyone confirm the brightening effect's cause?
I know it's partially due to the expanding debris sphere (at v >> 22km/S), but that should be cooling by now...
So I figure it's a combination of interaction with the extrasolar medium, plus reradiation of neutrino/gamma ray emission by the core star. But I can't confirm this.
Anyone?
However, I DO know what it WASN'T caused by. It WASN'T an IBSF (invisible bearded sky faery)... Just runaway carbon fusion. Mmmm, carbon....
CephasBorg 5 months ago
@CephasBorg you really think anyones actually gonna reply to you? Youtube commments section is the exact opposite of an intellectual forum. i wonder if you are just showing off that you know various terms.
Aristox116 5 months ago
@Aristox116 : If I really wanted to show off, you wouldn't understand a word in ten. (Hell, even I wouldn't understand a word in five! :) So that's not why I'm asking.
I've asked on TF's blog, on various astronomy forums that I lurk on, and I can't get a straight answer from someone who actually knows.
You're right though, the comments section here does remind one of feeding time at the Arkane Asylum, except of course it's information scraps dropping to the floor, not food.
CephasBorg 5 months ago
Well, whaddaya know. I finally found a Russian paper (from 1979) that attributes the brightening effect to the expansion of the outer shell.
It also claims that the kinetic energy released as the ejecta interacts with extrasolar nuclei causes some heating, but not enough to account for the full brightening effect.
And I was wrong - the accepted maximum velocity for type Ia SN ejection is less than 20km/S. You learn something new every day!
CephasBorg 5 months ago
It would be awsome if we could in the future make some kind of super camera that could zoom in to the EXTREME. So that we could get a clear vision of it.
gulbirk 5 months ago
@gulbirk
...And instantly be permanently blinded?
What part of "1,000,000 times as bright as the sun" made you think you want to magnify it right into your eyeball?
orophinellenese 5 months ago
@orophinellenese Who said you were suposed to look a directly at it?
I didnt say telescope btw.
Have you ever tried pointing a camera at the sun and then looking at the video?
gulbirk 5 months ago
@orophinellenese maybe make the camera in a way that decreases lighting... ever thought of that?
silverhawkroman 5 months ago
@silverhawkroman
Oddly enough, no. I assumed if we're going through that much trouble to see something, we wouldn't mess with the image.
It seems I was ignoring history, as we've messed with pretty much all the other interesting images from space. Mostly in order to actually make them interesting.
orophinellenese 5 months ago
@gulbirk I think that's called "Hubble."
hagerty1952 5 months ago
@hagerty1952 The Hubble isnt as good as we think.
I mean I can see lots of things, but when we see close ups from black holes or supernovas and national geographic channel or discovery its mainly animations.
gulbirk 5 months ago
@gulbirk Well, that's true. The resolution of Hubble's primary optics is only a few milli-arcseconds. That's not even enough to see details on the moon smaller than about 1,000 feet. The only reason we can see those distant things at all is that they're so big. The bigger the mirror the better the resolution and the mothballed James Webb telescope was over 100X bigger than Hubble in area.
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w00t242424 5 months ago
Awesome!
ZetaVS 5 months ago
Do you know if astromomers will be aiming more serious telescopes to publish much greater detailed pictures? Not that I'm knocking your work, Thunderfoot, great work. But I would love a closer gander at this thing.
patchesdf 5 months ago
thx for the vid. great job.
beyondEV 5 months ago
Its all bullshit, there are not any supernovas
JosephW99 5 months ago
The supernova is being sustained by radioactive decay. You can use this decay to prove radiometric dating reliable to the earliest periods of the universe.
synonys 5 months ago
Thunderf00t supernova will be seen for 10 days starting tonight (uk time)
Im guessing you no already :)
Even with standard telescope or anything close to having a good view.woohoo
sarajanegarr 5 months ago
Cool!
wiz9496 5 months ago
Oh jeez this reminds me of those days when I was animating in flash, I wanted to keep seeing the finished product and kept realizing it had to actually get finished first >< lol
wrongfire 5 months ago
my interstellar telescope shows its an exploding star system was caused by two warring alien races.
emancoy 5 months ago
why is each picture only displayed for a second or two? I had to watch over and over again to really grasp what I was seeing.
kyebean 5 months ago
I don't know much about the cosmos, will this get bright enough to see with the naked eye?
Bax7a 5 months ago
@Bax7a
Unfortunately no, but a small telescope or even a decent sized pair of binoculars (7x50s or 10x50s) have a pretty good chance of pulling it in, especially if you're in a darker area.
DenGreatshot 5 months ago
wicked!
ahmingah 5 months ago
Day in quotes. Win.
lenlee14 5 months ago
Oh my...that's massive. Massive is an understatement. I'm in shock.
IGDogFighter 5 months ago
MORE BLOG TV SHOWS TF00T!!!!
M0n0liths 5 months ago
amazing
sushanalone 5 months ago
well, some of my other friends think I'm silly, but I think it was worth staying up so late, watching you freeze your fingers off and fiddle with hardware for two nights, trying not to get eaten by mountain lions, to see "that little dot? That's it?" Geekery uber alles.
rriverstone1 5 months ago 5
Either it's an expanding star or... GOD IS BOWLING!
2401cs 5 months ago
God farted.
rationalmuscle 5 months ago
@rationalmuscle : ...and Jebus popped out of god's arsehole holding a BIC lighter!
If you listen really carefully, you can just hear god yelling out "Nooooooooooooooooooooo!"
CephasBorg 5 months ago
Thunderf00t as far as I know you are the first person to document the progression of a supernova for the masses...
Thanks :)
poorandimmature 5 months ago
Wow, I didn't know that they were THAT big!
yannbane 5 months ago
this is so f'n cool
dattebenforcer 5 months ago
What galaxy was this from?
roadkill1001 5 months ago
@roadkill1001 pinwheel galaxy
mobius1234 5 months ago
@roadkill1001
M101, often dubbed the "Pinwheel" galaxy. If you make an equilateral triangle between the last two stars of the big dipper's handle, with the 3rd point going east towards Draco/Cygnus, the galaxy (though invisible to the naked eye) will essentially be right where the third point of the triangle is.
DenGreatshot 5 months ago
Incredible
roadkill1001 5 months ago
to infinity and beyond!
engeljakob 5 months ago
The Grox strike again.
SteveLessthan3 5 months ago
Ah!!! my eyes!
madjimms 5 months ago
The Ori and the Empire teamed up with the Borg and have felled another star system!!!
ORACLE063 5 months ago
thast awesome Thunderf00t!
Tarhini 5 months ago
The spaceship man did the space thing in the space
fatkat444 5 months ago
Looks like commander Shepard took out the Alpha relay.
AnunnakiPriesthood 5 months ago 62
@AnunnakiPriesthood
Alpha Relay? Wasn't that the one from the DLC 'the arrival'?
Kinda confused, i oonly remember the omega relay for sure ^^
thx for the answer in advance
JheakrynaKyAlur 5 months ago
@JheakrynaKyAlur he said Shepard and ME. i think thats good enough hahhaa
silverhawkroman 5 months ago
@silverhawkroman
yeah?
sure?
and i asked what story in me - thx for your participation in this comments!
JheakrynaKyAlur 5 months ago
@AnunnakiPriesthood FUCK YEAH!!
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Phenomenal. Absolutely amazing.
Sack42 5 months ago
can someone explain this to me? i don't understand how you can have before and after pictures of a star exploding, then film it exploding. help a brother out.
MrZuluMale 5 months ago
I can understand why some people are complaining about it "just being a dot" but they aren't looking at it from the right perspective. All the white dust looking stuff is stars within the galaxy. So small that together they look like dust. Now freeze at day 8. That "dot" came out of that dust looking stuff. Imagine how many stars would fit in that light!
msuders 5 months ago
If you look real close, you can see an entire galaxy in these pics
plateofshrimp 5 months ago
cool stuff!
lostismyconstent 5 months ago
Woooooooow, Thunder for showing this.
I knew a Super Nova outshine its entire galaxy; I read it, and I heard it more than a thousand times, from Sagan, and so many other shows about the universe in television.
But no one had ever shown how incredible the effect really is.
I am stunt that no one had ever show this effect so that ordinary people can actually had an idea of how magnificent really it.
Thank you man for this work, really Awesome.
JerezJulio 5 months ago
imagine 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 Nukes detonating all at once, just imagining 1 nuke detonating is hard enough. Supernovae are fucking cool !!
jaylias 5 months ago
supernovas: 8 days a week
TrashednScatteredD 5 months ago
So has it already exploded or is it in the process of doing so?
cartmanofsp 5 months ago
@cartmanofsp It has already exploded, what you are seeing is the past, which is however many light years the light has traveled to TF's camera
oOxiny 5 months ago
@oOxiny That is spectacular, just proves how fascinating and mysterious the universe is.
cartmanofsp 5 months ago
@cartmanofsp it exploded a loooong time aago, this is only the light of the explosion reaching us.
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Yahweigh 5 months ago
i dunno, its just some tiny dot getting somewhat someting bigger or something
BeyondWrittenWords 5 months ago
@BeyondWrittenWords One of THE most powerful demonstrations of power the universe has to offer
narf126 5 months ago
You're making me wanna buy a telescope and learn my way around the skies
GHortaV 5 months ago 5
@GHortaV Check AndromedasWake's channel - he did a good little series for beginners in astronomy. I'm a keen amateur astronomer, and he says what I would say And - good telescopes don't come cheap. I think TF paid over $2,000 for his.
Squagnut 5 months ago
@Squagnut I will check it out for sure, thank you very much for the info.
GHortaV 5 months ago
@Squagnut
You can get in MUCH cheaper than that. A good place to start are Dobsonians, which are big reflectors on a cheap but sturdy, mortar style mount. You can find 6"-8" dobs (a LOT of telescope) in the $200-400 range easily.
DenGreatshot 5 months ago
@DenGreatshot Certainly there are cheaper options than an 11" Cassegrain on a Goto EQ7, but people splash out on Cassegrains for a reason. But my real point is that to get into astronomy, getting some good books and joining an astro club (other people will be happy to let beginners have a look at and through their kit) is a better first step than buying a telescope. It's better to have a little experience and to find out what you want to do and how to do it before spending proper money.
Squagnut 5 months ago
@GHortaV
It's well worth it. I got to see this sucker with my own (scope aided) eyes. Between this and another SN of the same type I saw over the winter, I consider it to have paid for itself, and that doesn't even count the hundreds of hours I've spent looking at other cool stuff... Planets, star clusters, other galaxies, etc. However, seeing galaxies themselves is a real challenge, especially if your skies are typical suburban or urban ones, like mine.
DenGreatshot 5 months ago
@DenGreatshot Actually, the last of what you said is exactly the reason for which I'm holding back from buying a telescope. I live in a city with a decent amount of pollution and I feel I would need to go out to the country side to fully enjoy the telescope experience. I don't own any property outside the city and I feel the telescope would be sitting in my closet 364 days of the year.
GHortaV 5 months ago
@justonemorename Some people bring out the worst in me... ;)
ronnystoehr 5 months ago
Supernova is super!
Marchawc 5 months ago
Looks like god is pissed of because people get sodomized on earth, so he blew up a star to relief himself.,,,
yusbarrett 5 months ago
Cool! I'm really glad i'm a subscriber.
D3admaus 5 months ago
How long does a supernova explosion last? It takes days for the core to collapse?
SixThousandMono 5 months ago
You know, a video like this would be a perfect set-up for a screamer...
Anonymous247n 5 months ago
@Anonymous247n Don't even think about.....GAAAAAAAH!
Clausfarre 5 months ago
That supernova was an inside job!
simon24h 5 months ago 45
THE SUPERNOVA WAS AN INSIDE JOB. OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEP AND LOOK AT THE FACTS.
GEORGE BUSH HAS OPENLY STATED THAT HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT STARS
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT STARS."
-GEORGE BUSH
THE SUPERNOVA BECOMES
SUPERNINE-ELEVEN. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.
IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT THERE WERE NO WHITE HOUSE GUYS IN SPACE AT THE TIME. A BIT TOO LUCKY IF YOU ASK ME.
toughdog6789 5 months ago 108
@toughdog6789
lol make my day ^^
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dborg321 5 months ago
@dborg321: Uhm... close. It's actually a feeble attempt at humor, or satire, and has used the trappings of typical conspiracy therory language as comedy elemnts. It's not serious (this is probably an attempt at "witty trolling" and not an attack... think along the lines of getting "rick rolled" by "push" rather than "pull").
RyuDarragh 5 months ago
@dborg321 You get that @toughdog6789's post was a joke, right?
knavehart 5 months ago
@knavehart Yes I didnt realize it - I just saw someone screaming out and didn't read it properly, so I was in the wrong there. So I deleted my post!
dborg321 5 months ago
@toughdog6789 Dude that's hilarious.
EppurSiMuove419 5 months ago
@toughdog6789 the jews caused the type 1a supernova, i have the proof.
SpockCanYouSaveme 5 months ago
@toughdog6789 OF COURSE THEY CAUSED IT BECAUSE THE SKY IS A HOAX.
CommunityCam 4 months ago
@toughdog6789 That comment was perfect.
BacklTrack 2 months ago
I assume those other large dots are globular clusters???
1om8cat 5 months ago
TFoot:
What would happen if this happened fairly near us in our galaxy, say if Betelgeuse went supernova? Would it affect us in any way?
johanneswiberg 5 months ago
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Kevstar19 5 months ago
@johanneswiberg Betelgeuse would not harm us. However we would have a second sun in the sky for several weeks. However, if a very special type of super nova happened called a gamma ray burst, the star could be much further from us than Betelgeuse and still cook us instantly.
Aezelll 5 months ago
so how long ago did this actually happen?
mancno1 5 months ago
@mancno1 It's 21 million light years away, so 21 million years ago.
gallowspole 5 months ago
Extremely cool. I wanted to do something similar, but the weather has not been kind. only got one shot so far...
Toml420 5 months ago
how can a regular person see this? do we need a super telescope?
Mindlessfroot 5 months ago
@Mindlessfroot Nope, its so bright it should be easy to see.
IWantAll99s 5 months ago
@Mindlessfroot
I pulled it in super easily last week in my 8" reflector, a $330 mass produced scope. The math says by now it's bright enough to see in a much smaller scope or even decent pair of binoculars, but I haven't had a clear night to get out there to see if I can do so yet.
DenGreatshot 5 months ago
@DenGreatshot thanks for the reply, ill be sure to keep my eyes out for it, I'm very excited!
Mindlessfroot 5 months ago
that is amazing to see
adantesoup 5 months ago
There goes the neighborhood. =/
gabbiac5150 5 months ago 58
@gabbiac5150
Just think of the great tan though, swings and roundabouts:)
TheLunarmonkey 5 months ago
How far away is that galaxy?
EDKsurly 5 months ago
@EDKsurly The Pinwheel Galaxy is approximately 21 million light years away.
lhvinny 5 months ago
Now if we would be able to make awesome telescopes and travel 100 times as fast as light, we could travel about 49 lightyears away from earth, look back and see the kennedy assassination live :D.....awesome.
jankuiper3422 5 months ago
what kind of supernova was this?
QuantumOverlord 5 months ago
@QuantumOverlord It's was a IA
lhvinny 5 months ago
@Dynamic0381 Oh, you just wait for Betelgeuse to do it's thing, and we'll have a great stellar show to watch!
Athaeus 5 months ago
I love it that it has 605 likes and 306 views
piloooogen 5 months ago
@piloooogen I love how even in 2011 people still dont get that only rates are updated instantly and views arent...
TVAExtreme 5 months ago 2
Wow! :) Makes you sit back and think ;D
JamieCunningham 5 months ago
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
ThreeDigitIQ 5 months ago
That thing must be pretty huge!
FHomeBrew 5 months ago
Awesome!
wjfox2006 5 months ago
I'm wondering how you knew the supernova was going to happen and be ready for it
robbo916 5 months ago
@robbo916 i assume he didn't. july 28 was taken no star, then one appeared. i guess he put two and two together and decided to continue to record it.
mrbarnes86 5 months ago
The Jedi's must have felt that..... Thundef00t has the force on his side.
KriegKadaver 5 months ago
*pop*
JabberCT 5 months ago
Vogons building intergalactic highway;-)
katten02 5 months ago 107
@katten02 Now that's a clever comment! ^_^
KanSirKing 5 months ago
@katten02 Guess there needed to be a bypass in hyperspace x3
rrrandommman 5 months ago
Short but sweet! :D
Except for the star systems next door :(
Foebane72 5 months ago
Very cool, Thank you for taking the time to do this. I have a question for you... Obviously the initial light from this massive explosion is going to spread out in all directions. What im curious about is when we will be able to observe this light with our eye and is it possible that we will one day be bathed in this initial light? Also is it possible this could have any effect on Earths environment (biosphere, gamma rays killing the ozone), or is this Supernova too far away for that to happen?
vakso 5 months ago
Holy Shit.
bangNL94 5 months ago
Sephiroth just kicked Cloud's ass.
BloodfelX 5 months ago
This is incredible.
Metarotica 5 months ago
Guys bashing theists is fun and all but dont you get tired of it ? I think all of us would like to put religion behind us one day as something uncool that used to be common prior to 2020(or whatever) and as something that is not a worthy topic for further discussion. You know, expanding our conversational horizons to something like science and space ships, faster than light travel, artificial intelligence , robots, etc.
PowerOfTheMirror 5 months ago
@PowerOfTheMirror If nobody debates them, they win the argument by default. They'll have free reign to spout all the bullshit they want, and without anyone to correct them, casual observers would be unaware of any other viewpoints.
It would be nice if we could turn our attention to other matters, but it's not a practical option until religion is put in it's place.
ThePsychoReturns 5 months ago 3
@ThePsychoReturns Ok I agree with that, we have to point out their mistakes now and forever to defend the casual observer from BS. Yet I think it wont be good to devote all our attention to that task, it would be somewhat obsessive. I think we can afford to gradually phase into other topics as we gain ground. This will may also help marginalize religion as a something thats not only based on false premises but also boring. Thats why im all for these science video's.
PowerOfTheMirror 5 months ago
Awesome!
hanbaal 5 months ago
it looks like a reversed butthole <3
oliverandm 5 months ago
@Dynamic0381 Well, they were dead even before we, as a species, existed... :P
HKragh 5 months ago
i thought it was pretty shitty too. this is something new scientist would upload, and no one spares honest criticism there. maybe Im just too spoiled from the usual quality...
jeebersjumpincryst 5 months ago
How big do they think the star was that went supernova? Also how close would that star have to be to us to wipe us out? Anyone know? D:
AtheistKharm 5 months ago
@AtheistKharm Hi-- since it was a SN Type Ia it would be 1.4 times the mass of the sun, commonly referred to as the Chandrasekhar limit. We use this type of SNe as a standard candle-- same mass ==> same luminosity, so we can judge distance by how bright it appears to us-- dimmer means farther away. As to your 2nd question, it would have to be more than 10X closer for it to affect Earth, somewhere inside our own galaxy (this one is 21 Mly away, and ago-- long ago, in a galaxy far, far away).
julsHz 5 months ago
@julsHz Very interesting. I'm just thinking any near by alien life on some exo-planets on some system near by might be having a bad day. Really bad day.
AtheistKharm 5 months ago
@AtheistKharm Strike the 10X closer BS-- meant to say ~10 million X's closer...
Yup, anything within ~20 ly might have had a bad millennium...
julsHz 5 months ago
Damn cool, absolutely extremely mega-super-hyper-duper- COOL. To actually observe one of the most violent incidents in the universum? Priceless.
makaralaatikko 5 months ago
holy crap...i can hardly believe how bright that things was. and it looks huge. it probably isn't, but it looks that way :)
thank you for sharing.
StickyTank 5 months ago
Really enjoying these videos Tf00t, I wouldn't normally see this kind of thing anywhere else.
grungeface87 5 months ago
f00t you need to relax about this a bit it's really not that great. i mean i know people like explosions but not ones that only look like someone brightening up a few pixels. Computer animations are better.
SomeIrishGuy19 5 months ago
@SomeIrishGuy19 Clearly you don't know the difference between just some "explosions" and a SUPERNOVA. If all you see is a light getting slightly bigger, then this video was not intended for you. Go critique something that actually needs critiquing. And and although they can help you further understand what it really looks like, computer generated images will never beat what you can witness with your own eyes.
westwood500 5 months ago
@westwood500 No one can think that this supernova looks exiting or cool it looks shitty it's a tiny dot you are only deluding yourself. he needs to stop doing this amature stargazing madness and get back to doing athiest vids i didn't sign up to see a vids of this madness.
SomeIrishGuy19 5 months ago
@SomeIrishGuy19 Please don't start a shitstorm over your narrow, unimaginative, selfish view. This video's comment section deserves better.
Koujinkamu 5 months ago
@Koujinkamu or it deserves plain honesty
jeebersjumpincryst 5 months ago
@jeebersjumpincryst Troll detected. I've got better things to do. Good day, sir.
Koujinkamu 5 months ago
@Koujinkamu I thought the comment section was for writing anything in. whether it be honest, dishonest, accurate, inacurate, relevant, irrelevant, etc. open yr mind a bit - just cause a comment disagrees with you, it doesnt mean "trolling" and its not the end of the world either. No one agrees on everything. If you REALLY REALLY like someone and their channel and vids, like i do here, its still acceptable to be honest and say u didnt like something in particular.
jeebersjumpincryst 5 months ago
@Koujinkamu a critical, objective, questioning, challenging viewpoint and mind set are what skepticism is all about. Not just blind, follow-the-masses, almost religious type thinking, or not thinking. You must want to talk, otherwise you wouldnt have replied to my comment :)
jeebersjumpincryst 5 months ago
@SomeIrishGuy19 You do understand that it is HIS channel to do what he wishes correct? Are you one to limit freedom to "Well I want you to do this, otherwise you're being stupid."
And the fact that you don't think a Supernova is exciting just goes to show how uneducated you are. Go read the other comments and say that again you dumbass.
I have no more time for your mindlessness, so good day.
westwood500 5 months ago
@westwood500 I know it's his channel but i subscribe to it because i like listening to him talk about athiest stuff and he's alienating people by having boring astronomy on here .thinking that a tiny twinkle of light is boring dosen't make me uneduacated you fucking tard. I've just finished my masters so i have plenty education.
SomeIrishGuy19 5 months ago
@SomeIrishGuy19 What you don't seem to comprehend, is why this is so interesting. It's not the white pixel we find amazing, it's what it represent. We fill in the rest of the pixels, by sheer knowledge of the subject. Let's say we discovered a dust worm of 1 km in length was living under the surface of Mars. If I then provided you with a video of a dark pixel moving across the surface, as seen from space, you wouldn't go; "Who finds this dark pixel interesting?!" You would know WHY it was COOL!
HKragh 5 months ago 4