A supernova that burst onto the scene a long time ago in a galaxy quite literally far, far away, and an amateur astronomer on the Peninsula was watching and taking photos to capture the instant it happened.
PALO ALTO -- The space world is buzzing about the most powerful explosion in the universe. A supernova has burst onto the scene in a galaxy quite literally far, far away, and an amateur astronomer on the Peninsula was watching and taking photos to capture the instant it happened. -- that's a prehistoric giant anteater to the layman -- began hoovering the primordial ant, an ancient alien nestled in an outer arm of the Pinwheel Galaxy knew there would be a terrific crimp in its evening.
"I was looking at several galaxies. That was one of the galaxies that I was imaging for those two nights. I had the image, but I didn't bother to look," Crilly said with a shrug and a smile. "I wouldn't want to be a planet in that solar system right now," he said, with a wry smile for the unlucky Pinwheelians of the long ago.
May we see this in the skies above? We may—if we have access to four things: The Big Dipper, a very dark sky, a fairly large telescope -- let's say an objective [lens/mirror] of at least six inches' aperture -- and a very friendly astronomer. We will need them to drive it and us, loaded with hot cocoa, to a distant, dark locale, and very carefully point their swell reflector to M101 high overhead in the nighttime sky.
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