NASA Discovers 11 Billion-Year-Old Supernova
Eleven billion, that's pretty old. Probably dated your mom in high school. Ba-ba-ba-burn!
Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
The ancient supernova was found after astronomers compared several years of images taken from a portion of the sky, enabling them to look for objects that changed in brightness over time.The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old, so the supernova marks the death of one of earliest stars in creation.
The previous supernova record was an event that happened around six billion years ago.
Ooh, I feel a song coming on. *ahem*
Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide
in a bourbon supernova
a gin & tonic black dwarf in the bar.
Massive supernova occurred 11 billion years ago [yahoonews]
Thanks to Torotoro from Alabanyor, who is old enough to be your father. And might be.
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