Well...we can thank our lucky stars that our Sun is a small star and that this super nova was in another galaxy 240 million light years away, and in reality happened 240 million years ago. It has taken that long for the light to travel here to reveal what actually happened in cosmic history. It's like any other news...we don't really know exactly what happened, and while we are reading it we are missing what's happening in the here and now...Heehehehe
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MSNBC
Scientists identify brightest supernova
WASHINGTON - Scientists say they have detected the brightest stellar explosion ever recorded, a new breed of supernova that may well be repeated sooner than they previously thought.
The violent explosion was observed by ground-based telescopes as well as NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory in a galaxy far from our own Milky Way. But the observations hint that an erupting star in our own galaxy, called Eta Carinae, could be close to the same kind of blast, astronomers say in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
For years, scientists have been looking for a blast this big, but never found one until last September. After months of analysis, the research team discussed their findings at a news conference Monday here at NASA Headquarters.
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