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Supernovae are among the most powerful events in the universe. These dying stars can burn as bright as a billion suns. They outshine whole galaxies and birth the beginnings of new cosmic bodies. So what happens when you give one access to a grand piano and a stand-up bass?
Enter astronomy graduate student Alex Harrison Parker from Canada’s University of Victoria. Parker took three years worth of supernovae observation data (covering four sections of the sky) from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, sped the video up to 15-days-per-second and assigned each super nova a note. Let’s watch.
I know it’s hump day and all, so I hate to spread the bad news, but U.S. astronomers from Villanova University in Philadelphia are apparently saying they’ve spotted human civilization’s destined destroyer via the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite. It’s name is T Pyxidis, and it’s a star set to explode in a supernova powerful enough to strip off Earth’s ozone layer .
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