Merely a brief post this week to let you all know about the recent discovery of a super-luminous supernova. The description supplied in the article elegantly describes the magnificence of these astronomical marvels:
“At its peak luminosity, it was over 100 billion times brighter than the Sun. It emitted enough energy in one second to satisfy the power needs of the United States for one million times longer than the universe has existed.”
If ever we need to be reminded of the awe with which our ancestors looked upon the stars at moments of such change, we need only look at those stars we now see through the lens of our technology. Our means of watching have changed, as has our understanding, but simple human wonder remains constant.
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