Travis Vocino is a South Florida based artist, designer, new media scientist, technologist and chocolate milk aficionado.
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The star, named V838 Monocerotis, has suddenly grown so big that if placed in the center of our solar system it would engulf Jupiter.
“A supernova would have been much brighter than V838 Mon, so that is ruled out,” said Howard Bond, a Space Telescope Science Institute researcher who led the observations. “V838 Mon was roughly as bright as an ordinary nova, but its behavior was very different.”
I simply love cosmology and this is so cool. Check out the whole story over at Space.com.
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One Response to “Exploding Star via Hubble”rss
Bill, on January 8th, 2006, said:
Thought you might be interested in this - SkyScout.
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